Political Reflections Upon the Finances and Commerce of France: Shewing the Causes which Formerly Obstructed the Advancement of Her Trade; on how Much Better Footing it Stands Now Than it Did Under Lewis XIV with Several Expedients for Raising it Still to a Greater Heighth ...

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A. Millar, 1739 - 304 pagina's
 

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Pagina xvi - M. de. The Figure of the Earth determined from Observations made by order of the French King at the Polar Circle.
Pagina xv - Harrington, esq.; collected, methodlz'd, and reviewed, with an exact account of his life prefixed, by John Toland. To which is added, an appendix, containing all the political tracts wrote by this author, omitted in Mr.
Pagina xv - Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton: Correctly printed from the Original Editions. with an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author; Containing several Original Papers of His, Never before Published.
Pagina xv - Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, from the first times to the end of the Reign of Queen...
Pagina 209 - Bow many days are there in January ? In February ? In March ? In April ? In May ? In June ? In July ? In August?
Pagina xvi - He who would see the justest and precisest notions of God and the soul, may read this book, one of the most finished of the kind, in my humble opinion, that the present times, greatly advanced in true philosophy, have produced.
Pagina xvi - Book ; one of the moft finimed of the kind, " in my humble Opinion, that the prefent " Times, greatly advanced in true Philofophy,
Pagina xv - Hiftorical and Critical, in which a new and accurate Tranflation of that of the Celebrated Mr.
Pagina 242 - ... at thirty. On the other hand, it seems as if the exchange ought to be regulated by the old coin; because the banker who has specie, and receives bills, is obliged to carry the old coin to the mint in order to change it for the new, by which he must be a loser. The exchange then ought to be fixed between the value of the old coin and that of the new. The value of the old is decreased, if we may call it so, both because there is already some of the new in trade, and because the bankers cannot keep...
Pagina xvi - With the Particulars of the; Battle of Almanza, and the Siege of Barcelona. Giving a General View of the Affairs of EUROPE, for thefe fifty Years paft.

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