 | Rogers Ruding - Coinage - 1819 - 514 pages
...there 's no loss in it, for the coining costs the owners nothing. 'i^iii? '. • " Thus the Nation hath been abused, and made to pay for the twisting of straw for asses to eat. If the merchant were made tp pay the price of the Coinage, he would not have sent his Silver to the... | |
 | James Taylor (of Bakewell.) - 1828 - 232 pages
...it down again; there's no loss in it, for the coining cost the owners nothing. Thus the nation hath been abused, and made to pay for the twisting of straw for asses to eat." posal of the bank, and also led both houses of parliament to think as Mr. Ricardo appears to have thought,... | |
 | Rogers Ruding - Coinage - 1840 - 542 pages
...down again ; there's no loss in it, for the coining costs the owner nothing. " Thus the nation bath been abused, and made to pay for the twisting of straw for asses to eat. If the merchant were made to pay the price of the coinage, be would not have sent his silver to the... | |
 | 1869 - 790 pages
...down again ; there's no loss in it, for the coining costs the owners nothing. " Thus the Nation hath been abused, and made to pay for the twisting of straw for " asses to eat." Discourses upon Trade, London, 1691, p. 18, cited in Ruding's Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain,... | |
 | Robert Potts - Arithmetic - 1876 - 392 pages
...expoited again. If there is none, but all be in coin, what then? melt it down again ; there s no loes in it, for the coinage cost the owners nothing. Thus,...capital was lent to the Government. In 1750, it began to_] issue notes for £10, its previous issues up to this date having been for notes of £20 and upwards.... | |
 | Karl Marx - Capital - 1883 - 840 pages
...to be in coin, whatthen? Meltit down again; tbere'a no loss in it, for the coining -costs the ownor nothing. Thus the nation has been abused, and made...to pay for the twisting of straw, for asses to eat. If the merchant (North war selbst einer der grössten Kaufleute zu Charles II. Zeit) had to pay the... | |
 | William Arthur Shaw - Foreign exchange - 1895 - 502 pages
...down again ; there's no loss in it, for the coining costs the coiners nothing. Thus the nation hath been abused and made to pay for the twisting of straw for asses to eat." By the time of the accession of William 1n. the scarcity of silver had become so great as to cause... | |
 | William James Ashley - Economic history - 1900 - 516 pages
...administration was the policy of ' free coinage,' and as to this he did not mince his words : ' The Nation hath been abused, and made to pay for the twisting of straw, for Asses to eat.' 1 But it was not only or originally the Eevolution government that he found fault with in this matter... | |
 | Karl Marx - Capital - 1906 - 880 pages
...what then? Melt it down again; there's no loss in it, for the coining costs the owner nothing. Thui the nation has been abused, and made to pay for the twisting of straw tor assea to eat. If the merchant were made to pay the price of the coinage, he wouli not have sent... | |
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Wherefore is it carried into the Tower and coined ? Not long after there will come a demand for bullion, to be exported again. If there is none, but all happens to be in coin, what then ? Melt it down again ; there's no loss in it, for the coining costs... 
