 | John Nicholls - 1820 - 428 Seiten
...almost to par. Mr. Pitt saw that this gave him an opportunity of reducing 32,000,000 of four per cent. stock to three per cent. He negotiated with the holders..." Then we will put off the reduction of this stock to next year." Can any man believe that Mr. Pitt would have used this language if he had at that time... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 510 Seiten
...per cent., — saying, in answer to their demand of a larger bonus than he thought proper to give, " Then we will put off the reduction of this stock till next year." The truth is, Mr. Pitt was proud of his financial system ; — the abolition of taxes and the Reduction... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 Seiten
...per cent. — saying, in answer to their demand of a larger bonus than he thought proper to give, " Then we will put off the reduction of this stock till next year." The truth is, Mr. Pitt was proud of his fmancial system ; — the abolition of taxes and the Reduction... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 422 Seiten
...per cent., — saying, in answer to their demand of a larger bonus than he thought proper to give, " Then we will put off the reduction of this stock till next year." The truth is, Mr. Pitt was proud of his financial system; — the abolition of taxes and the reduction... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 520 Seiten
...per cent., — saying, in answer to their demand of a larger bonus than he thought proper to give, " Then we will put off the reduction of this stock till next year." The truth is, Mr. Pit was proud of his financial system ; — the abolition of taxes and the Reduction... | |
 | 1845 - 1036 Seiten
...opportunity of reducing £32,000,000 of four per cents. He negotiated with the holders, but they demanded 8 larger bonus than he chose to give ; and he closed...had at that time intended to take part in the war? * * * But, in the close of the year 1792, Mr. Burke i himself a Whig) prevailed with the great Whig... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...per cent. — saying, in answer to their demand of a larger bonus than he thought proper to give, " Then we will put off the reduction of this stock till next year." The truth is, Mr. Pitt was proud of his financial system ; — the abolition of taxes and the Reduction... | |
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... of the country, by breaking off a negotiation into which he had entered with the holders of the four per cents., for the reduction of their stock to three per cent., — saying, in answer to their demand of a larger bonus than he thought proper to... 