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" The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either. "
The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ... - Page 136
1838
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1789 - 526 pages
...active and productive ftock ; into ftock which produces fomething to the country. The gold and filver money which circulates in any country may very properly...while it circulates and carries to market all the grafs and corn of the country, produces itfelf not a fingle pile of either. The judicious operations...
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Money: Its Nature, History, Uses and Responsibilities

Money - 1799 - 208 pages
...fixed capital. " The gold and silver money," says Adam Smith, " which circulates in any country, may be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates...carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, itself produces not a single pile of either. The judicious operation of banking, by providing, if I...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - 1801 - 362 pages
...and duclive flock; into flock which produces fomething to the country. The gold and filver mo-; hey which circulates in any country may very properly...while it circulates and carries to market all the grafs and corn of the country, produces itfelf not a fingle pile of either. The judicious operations...
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, Volume 3

James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 pages
...this dead stock into active and productive stock ; into stock which produces something to the country. The gold and silver money which circulates in any...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...
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The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and Review, Volume 1

1810 - 326 pages
...be a wheel for circulation. In itself, to use his own words, ca.pital of any kind " is a dead stock. The gold and silver money, which circulates in any...which, while it circulates and carries to market all t he grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile <lf either.'" The question therefore...
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The Works of Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S. of London and Edinburgh:: The ...

Adam Smith - 1812 - 520 pages
...and pro*n, dudlive ftock ; into ftock which produces feme-; thing to the country. The gold and filver money which circulates in any country may very properly...while it circulates and carries to market all the grafs and corn of the country, produces itfelf not a fingle pile of either. The judicious operations...
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The Works of Adam Smith, Volume 2

Adam Smith - 1812 - 582 pages
...and pro", ductive flock ; into flock which produces fome-> thing to the country. The gold and filver money which circulates in any country may very properly...while it circulates and carries to market all the grafs and corn of the country, produces itfelf not a finglepile of either. The judicious operations...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith - 1812 - 530 pages
...circulates and carries to market all the grafs and corn of the country, produces itfelf not a fingle pile of either. The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed fb violent a metaphor, a fort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were,...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 97

1825 - 798 pages
...dead stock into active and productive stock,— iuto stock which produces something to the country. The gold and silver money which circulates in any...grass and corn of the country, produces itself not to a single pile of either. The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if 1 may be allowed...
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Three Lectures on the Transmission of the Precious Metals from Country to ...

Nassau William Senior - 1828 - 320 pages
...Smith, " which circulates in any country, may be " compared to a highway, which, while it cir" culates and carries to market all the grass " and corn of...produces itself not " a single pile of either. The operations of " banking, by providing a sort of waggon-way " through the air, enable the country to...
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