Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 30, Issue 1Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1856 |
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... opinion , real or pretended , of their value . The intrinsic value of the stocks and shares remains for the most part unchanged during the period of the transaction ; they represent iden- tically the same property , producing exactly ...
... opinion , real or pretended , of their value . The intrinsic value of the stocks and shares remains for the most part unchanged during the period of the transaction ; they represent iden- tically the same property , producing exactly ...
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... reveals the entire absence of any settled doctrine among political economists on the subject of value . This indecision is the capital of the stockbroker . tions of price dependent on the fluctuations of opinion , SPECULATION AND TRADE .
... reveals the entire absence of any settled doctrine among political economists on the subject of value . This indecision is the capital of the stockbroker . tions of price dependent on the fluctuations of opinion , SPECULATION AND TRADE .
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... opinion , and hist principal business is to create those fluctuations of sentiment . So purely ideal and intangible are the commodities in which he deals , that language can scarcely apprehend them , and the modern tongues of ...
... opinion , and hist principal business is to create those fluctuations of sentiment . So purely ideal and intangible are the commodities in which he deals , that language can scarcely apprehend them , and the modern tongues of ...
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... opinions , which were con- sidered adverse to the religion of the Alcoran . He afterwards returned to Cordova , where he was soon reinstated by Yoseph ben Jacob , king of Morocco , both in his former dignity as a judge , and his office ...
... opinions , which were con- sidered adverse to the religion of the Alcoran . He afterwards returned to Cordova , where he was soon reinstated by Yoseph ben Jacob , king of Morocco , both in his former dignity as a judge , and his office ...
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... opinion of his royal master . A Mohammedan lawyer from Spain accused him publicly of pro- faning the religion of Islam , by having abandoned it for Judaism ; but the king himself defended his physician - in - chief on the ground that a ...
... opinion of his royal master . A Mohammedan lawyer from Spain accused him publicly of pro- faning the religion of Islam , by having abandoned it for Judaism ; but the king himself defended his physician - in - chief on the ground that a ...
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Page 76 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 175 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 76 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Page 155 - The public can facilitate this acquisition, by establishing in every parish or district a little school, where children may be taught for a reward so moderate, that even a common labourer may afford it ; the master being partly but not wholly paid by the public ; because, if he was wholly, or even principally paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business.
Page 70 - LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 223 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 10 - Oft did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them at the same time to a farmer ; and neither the nobleman, chimney-sweep, nor farmer had roots in their possession, or wished to possess them.
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