Mississippi scheme, projected by Mr. Law. Its paper money, like ours, had dwindled to nothing, and no efforts of the government could revive it, because the people had lost all confidence in its ability. Mr. Law, who had much more penetration than integrity,... The Life of Alexander Hamilton - Seite 248von John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 422 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Hamilton - 1842 - 512 Seiten
...could revive it, because the people had lost all confidence in its ability. Mr. Law, who had much more penetration than integrity, readily perceived, that...foundation was good, but the superstructure too vast. The proprietors aimed at unlimited wealth, and the Government itself expected too much ; which was the... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - 1850 - 514 Seiten
...could revive it, because the people had lost all confidence in its ability. Mr. Law, who had much more penetration than integrity, readily perceived, that...foundation was good, but the superstructure too vast. The proprietors aimed at unlimited wealth, and the Government itself expected too much ; which was the... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 526 Seiten
...could revive it, because the people had lost all confidence in its ability. Mr. Law, who had much more penetration than integrity, readily perceived, that...foundation was good, but the superstructure too vast. The proprietors aimed at unlimited wealth, and the Government itself expected too much ; which was the... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1857 - 612 Seiten
...could revive it, because the people had lost all confidence in its ability. Mr. Law, who had much more penetration than integrity, readily perceived that...miscarriage of the scheme, and of all the mischiefs that befell the kingdom in consequence. It will be our wisdom to select what is good in this plan, and in... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1857 - 610 Seiten
...could revive it, because the people had lost all confidence in its ability. Mr. Law, who had much more penetration than integrity, readily perceived that...miscarriage of the scheme, and of all the mischiefs that befell the kingdom in consequence. It will be our wisdom to select what is good in this plan, and in... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 612 Seiten
...could revive it, because the people had lost all confidence in its ability. Mr. Law, who had much more penetration than integrity, readily perceived that...miscarriage of the scheme, and of all the mischiefs that befell the kingdom in consequence. It will be our wisdom to select what is good in this plan, and in... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 634 Seiten
...revive it, because the people had lost all confidence in its ability. Mr. Law, / who had much more penetration than integrity, readily perceived that...miscarriage of the scheme, and of all the mischiefs that befell the kingdom in consequence. It will be our wisdom to select what is good in this plan, and in... | |
| William Graham Sumner - 1890 - 340 Seiten
...more penetration than integrity; " and the reason for crediting him with penetration is that he "saw that no plan could succeed which did not unite the...far, agreed in principle with the Bank of England." l This notion of holding up the government by giving rich men an interest in it is one which has often... | |
| Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton - 1961 - 748 Seiten
...could revive it, because the people had lost all confidence in its ability. Mr. Law who had much more penetration than integrity readily perceived that...foundation was good but the superstructure too vast. The proprietors aimed at unlimited wealth and the government itself expected too much; which was the cause... | |
| Stanley B. Greenberg - 1996 - 388 Seiten
...by creating the conditions for commerce and manufacture. Hamilton's purpose was straightforward, to "unite the interest and credit of rich individuals with those of the state."This was top-down economics. Henry Clay's "American system" — based on managing the national... | |
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