 | Joseph Bucklin Bishop - 1892 - 132 páginas
...it can be called, was the following by Mirabeau: "It is in vain to compare assignats, secured on the solid basis of these domains, to an ordinary paper...secure of all possessions, the land on which we tread." The advocates of money based on lands who are heard in our country to-day will recognize their own... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1892 - 592 páginas
...assimilate assignats, secured on the solid basis of these domains, to an ordinary paper money having a forced circulation. They represent real property, the most secure of all possessions, the soil on which we tread." Have we not recently heard something like this also ? Mirabeau said : " This... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1894 - 412 páginas
...necessary in money may be made money equal to their value." Mirabeau said of the French assignats: "They represent real property, the most secure of all possessions, the land on which we tread.'* The fondamental error in this principle lies in the attempt to hold a thing as property and at the... | |
 | Charles Arthur Conant - 1896 - 622 páginas
...this distinction, in urging the issue of the assignats upon the French Assembly, when he declared : They represent real property, the most secure of all possessions, — the land on which we tread. Why is a metallic circulation solid? Because it is based upon subjects of real and durable value, as... | |
 | 1916 - 832 páginas
...it can be called, was the following by Mirabeau: "It is in vain to compare assignats, secured on the solid basis of these domains, to an ordinary paper...secure of all possessions, the land on which we tread." This resounding phrase of Mirabeau carried the day in the National Assembly, and in September, 1790,... | |
 | Harold Glenn Moulton - 1916 - 830 páginas
...it can be called, was the following by Mirabeau: "It is in vain to compare assignats, secured on the solid basis of these domains, to an ordinary paper...secure of all possessions, the land on which we tread." This resounding phrase of Mirabeau carried the day in the National Assembly, and in September, 1790,... | |
 | Lionel Danforth Edie - 1928 - 530 páginas
...the glowing hopes entertained by Mirabeau in defending the issue of assignats. Mirabeau declared : "They represent real property, the most secure of all possessions, the land on which we tread. . . . It is thus alone you will pay your debts, pay your troops, advance the revolution. Reabsorbed... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1886 - 402 páginas
...denied the possibility of their depreciation. — ' It is vain to assimilate assignats secured on the solid basis of these domains to an ordinary Paper Currency possessing a forced circulation. TJiey represent real property, the most secure of all possessions, the land upon which we tread. Why... | |
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They represent real property, the most secure of all possessions, the land on which we tread. 
