 | English literature - 1758 - 550 pages
...weaken commerce, by tempting people to withdraw their money front trade, and employ it in nock-jobbing : that it would produce a fwarm of brokers and jobbers...gaming, and further corrupt the morals of the nation. It muft be allowed, that the bank was confidered as .a bulwark to the eftablifhment of King William... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1800 - 546 pages
...government-views, it might be ,693. employed to the worft purpofes of arbitrary power : that, infiead of aflifting, it would weaken commerce, by tempting people to withdraw...gaming, and further corrupt the morals of the nation. Notwithstanding thefe objections, the bill made its way through the two Houfes, cftablifhing the funds... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1804 - 544 pages
...government-views, it might be employed to the worft purpofes of arbitrary power : that, inftead of affifting, it would weaken commerce, by tempting people to withdraw their money from trade, and employ it in ftock-jobbing : that it would produce a fwarm of brokers and jobbers to prey upon their fellow-creatures,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 522 pages
...views, it might be employed to the worst purposes of arbitrary power ; that, instead of assisting, it would weaken commerce, by tempting people to withdraw their money from trade, and employ it in stockjobbing ; that it would produce a swarm of brokers and jobbers to prey upon their fellow creatures,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 522 pages
...government views, it might be employed to the worst purposes of arbitrary power; that, instead of assisting, it would weaken commerce, by tempting people to withdraw their money from trade, and employ it in stockjobbing; that it would produce a swarm of brokers and jobbers to prey upon their fellow creatures,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 516 pages
...employed to the worst purposes of arbitrary power; that, instead of assisting, it would weaken tcommerce, by tempting people to withdraw their money from trade, and employ it in stockjobbing; that it would produce a swarm of brokers and jobbers to prey upon their tellow creatures,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 448 pages
...views, it might be employed to the worst purposes of arhitrary power : that, instead of assisting, it would weaken commerce, by tempting people to withdraw their money from trade, and employ it in stock-jobhing: that it would produce a swarm of brokers and jobbers to prey upon their fellow-creatures,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1822 - 516 pages
...views, it might be employed to the worst purposes of arbitrary power : that, instead of assisting, it would weaken commerce, by tempting people to withdraw their money from trade, and employ it in stock-jobbing : that it would produce a swarm of brokers and jobbers, to prey upon their fellow-creatures,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1825 - 656 pages
...views, it niight be employed to the worst purposes of arbitran* power : that, instead of assisting, it would weaken commerce, by tempting people to withdraw their money from trade, and employ it in stock-jobbing : that it would produce a swarm of brokers and jobbers to prey upon their fellow-creatures,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 534 pages
...people to withdraw their money from trade, and employ it in stock-jobbing: that it would produce a swarm of brokers and jobbers, to prey upon their fellow-creatures, encourage fraud and gaming, and farther corrupt the morals of the nation. Notwithstanding these objections, the bill made its way through... | |
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The project was violently opposed by a strong party, who affirmed that it would become a monopoly, and engross the whole money of the kingdom; that, as it must infallibly be subservient to government views, it might be employed to the worst purposes of... 
