The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Sir James R. G. Graham, Bart, Том 1

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Saunders, Otley, and Company, 1863
 

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Сторінка 246 - ... 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey When wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them and a breath has made.
Сторінка 505 - THE LIVES of the SPEAKERS of the HOUSE of COMMONS. By William Nathaniel Massey, Esq., MP, author of " The History of England," and Chairman of Ways and Means. THE LATITUDINARIANS. A Chapter of Church History, from the Accession of Archbishop Tillotson in 1691, to the Death of Archdeacon Blackburne, in 1787. By Edward Churton, MA, Archdeacon of Cleveland. THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON. WE GLADSTONE, MP 1 vol., 8vo. The FINANCIAL POLICY OF ENGLAND for Twenty Years, from 1842 to 1861.
Сторінка 64 - Are just danced about for a moment or two, And the finer they are, the more sure to run through...
Сторінка 231 - Accordingly we find, that, in every kingdom, into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, every thing takes a new face: labour and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.
Сторінка 482 - FREE TRADE in CORN, the Real Interest of the Landlord, and the True Policy of the State.
Сторінка 231 - The workman has not the same employment from the manufacturer and merchant ; though he pays the same price for everything in the market. The farmer cannot dispose of his corn and' cattle ; though he must pay the same rent to his landlord. The poverty, and beggary, and sloth, which must ensue, are easily foreseen.
Сторінка 487 - Ireland, and the question were to end there, his opinion of it might be very different. But he understood it to be a bill to secure a certain amount of property and revenue destined by the State to religious and charitable purposes, and if the State should find that it was not appropriated justly to the purposes of religious and moral instruction, for which such revenues were intended, when given to any Church Establishment, it would then be the duty of Parliament to consider of a different appropriation.
Сторінка 488 - ... if, when the revenue was once secured, the assertion of that opinion should lead him to differ and separate from those with whom he was united by political connection, and for whom he entertained the deepest private affection, he should feel much regret ; yet...
Сторінка 183 - The value of money is in the inverse ratio of its quantity; the supply of commodities remaining the same." Torrens, in his work on Political Economy, says: "If the value of all other commodities, in relation to gold, rises and falls as their quantities diminish or increase, the value of gold in relation to commodities must rise and fall as its quantity is diminished or increased.

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