Apology for Sinking-fundsWilliams and Norgate, 1868 - 247 páginas |
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20 millions Adam Smith American amount annual charge applied believe borrow Britain capital century Chancellor commerce Commis Commissioners compound interest considerable consolidated fund Consols consumption continue cost Crimean war deux Mondes diminished discharge Economist England English established European evil Exchequer expenditure expenses fear France free trade French future G. C. Lewis Gladstone Hamilton Holland Hume income tax income-tax India Indian invested labourers land lend less levied loans Lord Grenville Lord Henry Petty manufactures McCulloch means ment million tons National Debt nearly opinion owing paid Pall Mall Gazette Parliament payment peace period Pitt Pitt's scheme population present Price principal probably produce profit proposed prosperity Prussia public debt railroads raised rate of interest reduced repayment revenue Revue des deux sacrifice savings Scottish Widows sinking fund sinking-fund sioners stocks suppose surplus taxation terminable annuities tion Treasury whole
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Página 40 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expence of defending those provinces in time of war.
Página 146 - I must confess, when I see princes and states fighting and quarrelling, amidst their debts, funds, and public mortgages, it always brings to my mind a match of cudgel-playing fought in a China shop.
Página 39 - It is surely now time that our rulers should either realise this golden dream, in which they have been indulging themselves, perhaps, as well as the people, or that they should awake from it themselves, and endeavour to awaken the people. If the project cannot be completed, it ought to be given up. If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the...
Página 150 - In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return...
Página 50 - The Speaker of the house of commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the Rolls, the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England...
Página 147 - It must, indeed, be one of these two events ; either the nation must destroy public credit, or public credit will destroy the nation.
Página 144 - Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar The friends thou hast and their adoption tried Grapple them to thy soul with...
Página 144 - I must confess, that there is a strange supineness, from long custom, crept into all ranks of men, with regard to public debts; not unlike what divines so vehemently complain of with regard to their religious doctrines.
Página 148 - ... the conqueror. And this may properly enough be denominated the violent death of our public credit. These...
Página 39 - The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only. It has hitherto been, not an empire, but the project of an empire...