| David Hume - 1760 - 396 σελίδες
...Of MONEY. MO NEY is not, properly fpeaking, one of the fubjefts of commerce; but only the inflrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. 'Tis none of the wheels of trade : 'Tis the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more fmooth... | |
| 1775 - 408 σελίδες
...during his whole life*. MONEY is not properly one of the fubjects of commerce, but only the inftrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : it is the oil which-renders the motion of the wheels more fmooth... | |
| 1762 - 762 σελίδες
...on\j to obferve their literary excellencies or of the fubjects of" commerce ; but on ly the inflrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more fmooth... | |
| David Hume - 1804 - 592 σελίδες
...afford nothing to those who an> employed in the public service. f Fable of the Be.es. ESSAY III. OF MONEY. is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects...facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth... | |
| David Hume - 1809 - 868 σελίδες
...service. * Fable of the Bees. ESSAY IIl. OF MONEY. MONEY is not, properly speaking, one of the subject* of commerce ; but only the instrument which men have...facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth... | |
| Charles Ganilh - 1812 - 520 σελίδες
...and commodities, and serves only as a method for rating or estimating them." " Money," says Hume, " is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of...facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is not one of the wheels of trade ; it is the oil which * In England, by Locke ; in France, by DtUol... | |
| Charles Ganilh - 1812 - 504 σελίδες
...and commodities, and serves only as a method for rating or estimating them." " Money," says Hume, " is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce ; but only the instrument which men bave agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is not one of the wheels... | |
| ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. - 1814 - 548 σελίδες
...fall in the value of money. I am, Sir, Your, &c. On Money and Currency. JM 4 MONEY, ' says Mr Hume, ' is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of...facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another.' And he adds, ' It is none of the wheels of trade; it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels... | |
| 1825 - 798 σελίδες
...resort to quotations also, and shall take them from home-bred philosophers : '' Money (says David Hume) is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of...facilitate the exchange of •one commodity for another*." So says one great man, as to money in general : another one (Adam Smith) gives us, in his Wealth of... | |
| 1824 - 770 σελίδες
...numeration and arithmetic. He farther observes, money is not, properly speaking, one of the objects of commerce, but only the instrument which men have...facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is not one of the wheels of trade ; it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth... | |
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