 Common consent has consigned it to rest with that kind of regard, which the long service of inanimate things insensibly obtains from mankind. Every stone in the bridge, that has carried us over, seems to have a claim upon our esteem. But this was a corner-stone,...  The Natural Law of Money - Page 87by William Brough - 1894 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Paine - 1817 - 72 pages
...with that kind of regard which the long service of inanimate things insensibly obt»insfrom mankind. Every stone in the bridge, that has carried us over,...seems to have a claim upon our esteem. But this was a corner-stone, and its usefulness cannot be for. gotten. There is something in a grateful mind, which... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 478 pages
...with that kind of regard, which the long service of inanimate things insensibly obtains from mankind. Every stone in the bridge, that has carried us over,...seems to have a claim upon our esteem. But this was a corner stone, and its usefulness cannot be forgotten. There is something in a grateful mind, which... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 524 pages
...with that kind of regard, which the long service of inanimate things insensibly obtains from mankind. Every stone in the bridge, that has carried us over,...seems to have a claim upon our esteem. But this was a corner stone, and its usefulness cannot be forgotten. There is something in a grateful mind, which... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 552 pages
...with that kind of regard, which the long service of inanimate things insensibly obtains from mankind. Every stone in the bridge, that has carried us over,...seems to have a claim upon our esteem. But this was a comer stone, and its usefulness cannot be forgotten. There is something in a grateful mind, which... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 514 pages
...with that kind of regard which the long service of inanimate things insensibly obtains from mankind. Every stone in the bridge that has carried us over,...seems to have a claim upon our esteem, but this was a corner stone, and its usefulness cannot be forgotten." " *The paper money, though issued from congress,... | |
 | Albert Sidney Bolles - 1879 - 394 pages
...calculation." — NOAH WEBSTER, Coll. of Essays, p. 192. 1 Thomas Paine wrote with reference to paper money, " Every stone in the bridge, that has carried us over,...seems to have a claim upon our esteem. But this was a corner-stone and its usefulness cannot be forgotten. There is something in a grateful mind, which... | |
 | William Brough - 1894 - 186 pages
...driven from circulation it was by the operation of the legal-tender quality given to paper:\ money, and not because the money was paper ; but as this...forgotten." ' The paper-money movement of the colonists pro-x ceeded from the fact that they had reached the stage of industrial development when metallic... | |
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