 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...have always proved favourable to the debtor, and ruinous to the creditor, and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons, than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity; It is in this manner that money has... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - Business & Economics - 1835 - 354 pages
...have always proved favourable to the debtor, and ruinous to the creditor ; and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons, than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity." It has now been fully shewn, that... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...have always proved favourable to the debtor, and ruinous to the creditor, and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity. It is in this manner that money has... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 pages
...have always proved favourable to the debtor, and ruinous to the creditor ; and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons, than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity. It is in this manner that money has... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...have always proved favorable to the debtor and ruinous to the creditor, and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity. It is in this manner that money has... | |
 | William Peacock - English literature - 1903 - 408 pages
...have always proved favourable to the debtor, and ruinous to the creditor; and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons, than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity. Sm, SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS 1723-1792... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1910 - 490 pages
...have always proved favorable to the debtor, and ruinous to the creditor, and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity. It is in this manner that money has... | |
 | William Jayne Weston - Banks and banking - 1922 - 356 pages
...have always proved favourable to the debtor, and ruinous to the creditor, and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons, than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity." In 1545, for instance, Henry VIII.,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - Currency question - 1922 - 64 pages
...have always proved favourable to the debtor, and ruinous to the creditor, and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons, than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity.2 * Wealth of Nations, Book I, chap.... | |
 | Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - Economics - 2003 - 364 pages
...have always proved favourable to the debtor and ruinous to the creditor; and have sometimes created a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons, than could have been occasioned by a very great public calamity." It is worthy of observation that... | |
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... All other debtors in the state were allowed the same privilege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such operations, therefore, have always proved favourable to the debtor, and... 
