 And if any Baron, or any one else soever, hath need of gold or silver or gems or pearls, in order to make plate, or girdles, or the like, he goes to the Mint and buys as much as he list, paying in this paper-money.' Now you have heard the ways and means...  Scientific Lectures - Page 146by Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 228 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Banks and banking - 1879 - 1110 pages
...earliest mention of paper, or rather cotton, money, in European literature, appears to be by Kubruguis, a monk, who was sent by St. Louis, in the year 1252,...has, more treasure than all the kings in the world. Tou know all about it, and the reason why." But this apparent facility of creating money led, in the... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 862 pages
...he list, paying in this paper-money.1 Now you have heard the ways and means whereby the Great Kaan may have, and in fact has, more treasure than all the Kings in the World ; and you know all about it and the reason why. And now I will tell you of the great Dignitaries which... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 672 pages
...he list, paying in this paper-money.' Now you have heard the ways and means whereby the Great Kaan may have, and in fact has, more treasure than all the Kings in the World ; and you know all about it and the reason why. And now I will tell you of the great Dignitaries which... | |
 | Willem Vissering - Money - 1877 - 288 pages
...as he list, paying in this papermoney. Now you have heard the ways and means whereby the Great Kuan may have, and in fact has, more treasure than all the Kings in the World; and you know all about it and the reason why. Marco Polo's information has already frequently been... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1878 - 272 pages
...girdles, or the like, he goes to the Mint and buys as much as he list, paying in this paper money. " Now you have heard the ways and means whereby the...has, more treasure than all the kings in the world ; and you know all about it, and the reason why." " Pauthier," says Colonel Yule, " has given, from... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1880 - 908 pages
...longer and interesting account of the note system, which he greatly admired, and he concludes by saving, "Now you have heard the ways and means whereby the...world. You know all about it, and the reason why." I?ut this apparent facility of creating money led, in the East, as it has elsewhere, to great abuses.... | |
 | 1882 - 780 pages
...man Down to a sunless sea" — gives us a longer and interesting account of the note system, which ha greatly admired, and he concludes by saying, "Now...facility of creating money led, in the East, as it hoa elsewhere, to great abuses. Sir John Mandeville, who was in Tartary shortly afterward, in 1322,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...as he list, paying in this paper money. Now you have heard the ways and means whereby the Great Kaan may have, and in fact has, more treasure than all the kings in the world ; and you know all about it and the reason why. KUBLAI'S ADMINISTRATION. Concerning the Twelve Barons... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1903 - 828 pages
...he list, paying in this paper-money.1 Now you have heard the ways and means whereby the Great Kaan may have, and in fact has, more treasure than all the Kings in the World ; and you know all about it and the reason why./ And now I will tell you of the great Dignitaries which... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Economics - 1907 - 732 pages
...as he list, paying in this paper-money. Now you have heard the ways and means whereby the Great Kaan may have, and in fact has, more treasure than all the Kings in the World ; and you know all about it and the reason why. And now I will tell you of the Great Dignitaries which... | |
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