 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...each has been very different. It is in this manner that money has become, in all civilized nations, the universal instrument of commerce ; by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. ON POPULAR LAW. No. I. BEYOND the necessary attention to daily wants and domestic comforts, there is... | |
 | 1824 - 822 pages
...acceptable, and taken in exchange for any other merchandize." " In all civilized nations," says Adam Smith, " money has become the universal instrument...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another." Lord Lauderdale considers money as part of capital, and, consequently, as agreeing with capital in... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...! extremely abstracted. mity. It is in this manner that money has become, in all civilized nations, the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds arc bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. CHAP. V. What are the rules which men naturally... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...about a thirty-sixth. — It is in this manner •that money has become, in all civilized countries, the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. Smith. SECTION IV. HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND TRAVELS. THE SCIENCES, ARTS, AND OCCUPATIONS OF THE ANCIENT... | |
 | John Eadie - 1865 - 136 pages
...characteristics it would cease to be money. Adam Smith says: "Money has become in all civilized countries the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...goods of all kinds are bought and sold or exchanged. Iron was the common instrument of commerce among the ancient Spartans, copper among the ancient Komans,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...a very great public calamity. It is in this manner that money has become, in all civilized nations, the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. What are the rules which men naturally observe in exchanging them either for money or for one another,... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 668 pages
...offices called Mints. . . . " It is in this manner that money has become, in all civilized nations, the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds were bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. What .are the rules which men naturally observe... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 704 pages
...offices called Mints. . . . " It is in this manner that money has become, in all civilized nations, the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds were bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. What are the rules which men naturally observe... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 pages
...extremely abstracted. Notes 5, 6. It is in tins manner that money has become, in all civilized nations, the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, ur exchanged for one another. CHAP. V. What are the rules which men naturally observe, in exchanging... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 184 pages
...are the precious metals, and it is in this manner that money has become in all civilized countries the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention...are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. Smith sets himself, at this point, to ascertain the rules which determine the basis on which the exchange... | |
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It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another. 
