 MONEY is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade: It is the oil which renders the motion of...  The Scots Magazine - Página 311762Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Henry Charles Carey, Kate McLean - 1872 - 584 páginas
...says HUME, " properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce, but only the instrument which all have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one...the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy." Had he, however, found it asserted that corn, wine, and the flesh of sheep and oxen,... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 668 páginas
...consequence.1 ... It is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce, but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange...the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. If we consider any one kingdom by itself, it is evident that the greater or less plenty... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 674 páginas
...i Hnme't Works, Essay on Interest (Am. ed.), vol. iii. o. 325. of commerce, but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange...the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. If we consider any one kingdom by itself, it is evident that the greater or less plenty... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1877 - 578 páginas
...that have it in plenty." Hume's oft-quoted image has a sort of family resemblance to that of Petty : " It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy." 'improved harbors, roads, and manufactories.' According to such views, the influence... | |
 | Freeman Otis Willey - 1882 - 564 páginas
...diligent and skillful, and even the farmer follows his plow with greater alacrity and attention. ... It is the oil which renders the motion 'of the wheels more smooth and easy. . . . The good policy of the government consists only in keeping it, if possible,... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - 1888 - 846 páginas
..."Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce, but only the instrument which all have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one...the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy." To this Carey (" Principles," condensed by McKean.p. 352) says: " Had he, however,... | |
 | VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 páginas
..."Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce* but only the instrument which all have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one...the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy." To this Carey (" Principles," condensed by McKean, p. 352) says: " Had he, however,... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - 1888 - 854 páginas
...the instrument which all have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of me commodity for another. IL is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy." To this Carey (" Principles," condensed by McKean, p. 332) says: " Had he, however.... | |
 | David Hume - 1889 - 530 páginas
...HI.—Of Money. MONEY is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce ; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange...the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. If we consider any one kingdom by itself, it is evident, that the greater or less... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 448 páginas
...sentences : ' Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce, but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another.' The absolute quantity of the precious metals is a matter of great indifference. There are only two... | |
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