 Suppose four-fifths of all the money in GREAT BRITAIN to be annihilated in one night, and the nation reduced to the same condition, with regard to specie, as in the reigns of the HARRYS and EDWARDS, what would be the consequence? Must not the price of...  Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects - Page 326by David Hume - 1804Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - 1768 - 606 pages
...annihilated in one night, and the* nation reduced to the fame con-^ dition, with regard to fpecie, as in the reigns of the HARRYS and EDWARDS, what would be the confequence ? Muft not the price of all labour and commodities fink in proportion, and every thing... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - 1799 - 852 pages
...be . annihilated in one night, and the nation reduced to the fame condition, with regard to fpecie, as in the reigns of the HARRYS and EDWARDS, what would be the confcqucnce? Jlfuft not the price of all labour and commodities Jink m proportion, and every thing... | |
 | Henry Thornton - 1802 - 332 pages
...four-fifths of all the money in Great Britain to be anm" hilated in one night, and the nation reduced to the same condition, with ** regard to specie, as...Edwards ; what " would be the consequence ? Must not theprice of all labour and com. " modities sink in proportion, and every thing be sold as cheap as... | |
 | Henry Thornton - 1807 - 298 pages
...four.fifths of all the money in Great Britain to be annihi" lated in one night, and the nation reduced to the same condition, with " regard to specie, as...consequence ? Must not the price of all labour and com" modules sink in pioportion, and every thing be sold as cheap as they " were in those ages t What... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 868 pages
...four-fifths of all the money in Great Britain to be annihilated in one night, and the nation reduced to the same condition, with regard to specie, as in...Harrys and Edwards, what would be the consequence i Must not the 'price of all labour and commodities sink in proportion, and every thing be sold as... | |
 | 1811 - 584 pages
...fifths of all the money " in Great Britain to be annihilated in one night, and the na" tion reduced to the same condition, with regard to specie, " as...consequence? Must not the price of all labour and com" modities sink in proportion, and every thing be sold as " cheap as they were in those ages? What... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 830 pages
...to the same condition, with regard to specie, that it was in the reigns of the Henries and Edwards, must not the price of all labour and commodities sink in proportion ? Suppose it were multiplied fivefold in one night, must not the contrary effect follow ?" Then mark... | |
 | Richard Cruttwell - 1839 - 296 pages
...four-fifths of all the money in Britain " to be annihilated in one night, and the nation to be reduced " to the same condition, with regard to specie, as in...not the price of all labour and commodities sink in propor" lion, and every thing be sold as cheap as they were in thoseages? " What nation could then... | |
 | Patrick James Stirling - 1853 - 310 pages
...Britain to be annihilated in one night, and the nation reduced to the same condition in this particular as in the reigns of the Harrys and Edwards, what would...in proportion, and every thing be sold as cheap as in those ages ? What nation could then dispute with us in any foreign market, or pretend to navigate... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 586 pages
...four fifths of all the money in Great Britain to be annihilated in one night, and the nation reduced to the same condition, with regard to specie, as in...would be the consequence ? Must not the price of all labor and commodities sink in proportion, and every thing be sold as cheap as they were in those ages... | |
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