The Bankers' Magazine, and Journal of the Money Market, Том 10

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Richard Groombridge, 1850
 

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Страница 231 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Страница 232 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Страница 232 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Страница 16 - It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. That part of his capital whicha dealer is obliged to keep by him unemployed and in ready money, for answering occasional demands...
Страница 371 - ... no acceptance of any bill of exchange, whether inland or foreign, made after the 31st day of December, 1856, shall be sufficient to bind or charge any person, unless the same be in writing on such bill, or if there be more than one part of such bill on one of the said parts...
Страница 420 - Committee cannot, therefore, but see reason to regret, that the suspension of casli payments, which, in the most favourable light in which it can be viewed, was only a temporary measure, has been continued so long ; and particularly, that by the manner in which the present continuing Act is framed, the character should have been given to it of a permanent war measure.
Страница 418 - ... retard the rate of circulation, render the same amount of currency more or less adequate to the wants of trade. A much smaller amount is required in a high state of public credit, than when alarms make individuals call in their advances, and provide against accidents by hoarding ; and in a period of commercial security and private confidence, than when mutual distrust discourages pecuniary arrangements for any distant time.
Страница 304 - Conveyance, whether grant, disposition, lease, assignment, transfer, release, renunciation, or of any other kind or description whatsoever, upon the sale of any lands, tenements, rents, annuities or other property, real or personal, heritable or moveable, or of any right, title, interest or claim, in, to, out of or upon any lands, tene • nents, rents, annuities or other property...
Страница 16 - The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of wagon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures and cornfields, and thereby to increase very considerably the annual produce of its land and labor.
Страница 225 - Money, when its use has grown habitual, is the medium through which the incomes of the different members of the community are distributed to them, and the measure by which they estimate their possessions. As it is always by means of money that people provide for their different necessities, there grows up in their minds a powerful association leading them to regard money as wealth in a more peculiar sense than any other article ; and even...

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