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...l passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered doubly pleasant; and of which I ...

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...teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a... ...amined him—his red whiskers—his collars turned down—his duck trousers, his bullion epaulets—with awe. With the same reverential feeling we examined th...

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..., and once revived in spirit, spreads like wildfire. With two historical gold coins helping lead the way, growing numbers of young commemorative and bullion coins began throwing caution to the wind, discarding the plastic shells they received as parting gifts from the mint, to go “Freewheeling.” Daring to face the world without their protective gear, the young coins quic...

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... banking families sat in their castles and swelled their vaults with yet more bullion and money. Their obscene wealth hidden from view: unreported:...

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... June 8, 1864 Act 132 Section 6. Private Mints 134 Section 7. Branch Mints 136 Section 8. Except as Now Authorized by Law 137 Section 9. Gold Bullion Coins 145 Section 10. The Grain of Gold 148 Section 11. Silver 152 Section 12. Electronic Trading in Gold 153 Chapter 7. State Restorative Action 161 Section 1. Gold and Silver Coin 161 Section 2. Gold and...

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...peat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. I will freely add that I was not insensible to the late John Jacob...

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...lting pot together. But by far the greater part of the silver consisted of bullion from the mines of South America, which the English buccaneers—who w... ...ith it. Now their rakes or fishing lines were loaded with masses of silver bullion. There were also pre cious stones among the treasure, glittering a... ... the deck of the vessel. The whole value of the recovered treasure, plate, bullion, precious stones, and all, was estimated at more than two millions ... ...ion of their wealth. Captain Phips and his men continued to fish up plate, bullion, and dollars, as plentifully as ever, till their provi sions grew ...

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...truth. The American of wealth is owned by his family. They exploit him for bullion. The women get the ha’pence, the kicks are all his own. Nothing is ...

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...al case. There is a moral, in his opin- ion, hanging like a tassel of gold bullion from the ‘Iliad;’— and what is it? Something so fantastic, that I d... ... spirits, and, caring evidently as little for the corn question as for the bullion question, had raced about in all directions; and at length, descend...

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...it contains 2,000 napoleons packed between layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at present than is usually kept in a single bran... ... was essential that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than any othe...

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...ding cost, Of euery pillour and of euery post; Which all of purest bullion framed were, And with great pearles and pretious stones embo...

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...contraband of war nor prohibited by order of the War Department, nor coin, bullion, or foreign exchange, to an amount not exceeding in value one-third...

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...bour—if they did not pay for the mutton, they had it: if they did not give bullion in exchange for their wine, how should we know? Never was better cl...

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... how to reduce the result ing amalgam in the retorts, and how to cast the bullion into pigs; and finally I know how to screen tailings, and also how ...

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...self than for her, when 56 One of Our Conquerors he shook off his bars of bullion, to rise the lighter, and left a wretched female soul below, with t...

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...ing from the same wire nail that secured one of its corners in place was a bullion bag and a cartridge belt with a loaded revolver in the pouch. The d...

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...r if I’d got what’s owing to me.” “Y ou’ d have to be protected; you’ d be Bullion on two legs,” said Algernon, always shrewd in detecting a weakness....

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...ing.—My Lord Weston, Look that those merchants draw not without loss Their bullion from the Tower; and, on the payment Of shipmoney, take fullest comp...

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...us paths, girt with a great sword and in a shabby uniform with tar- nished bullion epaulettes of a senior major. Most min- ers being Indians, with big...

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...hether he should be compelled to fall back on the rich crazy woman who had bullion where others have brains. But everything that reminded him of his d...

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...he terms circulating- medium, currency , depreciation of currency’, paper, bullion, rates of exchange, value of precious metals in the market, and so ...

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..., in the uniform of a general officer, wearing the double epaulet of heavy bullion, that indicates superior rank, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor ar...

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...bour—if they did not pay for the mutton, they had it: if they did not give bullion in exchange for their wine, how should we know? Never was better cl...

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...he terms circulating- medium, currency , depreciation of currency’, paper, bullion, rates of exchange, value of precious metals in the market, and so ...

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...age, and he who carries a pound weight or an ounce weight of standard gold bullion to the mint, gets back a pound weight or an ounce weight of gold in... ...the quantity of gold coin which the mint gives in return for standard gold bullion. Before the reformation of the gold coin, the price of standard gol... ...llion. Before the reformation of the gold coin, the price of standard gold bullion in the market had, for many years, been upwards of £3:18s. sometime... ... 41 Adam Smith mation of the gold coin, the market price of standard gold bullion seldom exceeds £ 3:17:7 an ounce. Before the reformation of the gol... ... the gold coin, but likewise that of the silver coin in proportion to gold bullion, and probably, too, in proportion to all other commodi- ties; thoug... ...tinct and sensible. In the English mint, a pound weight of standard silver bullion is coined into sixty-two shillings, containing, in the same manner,... ...quantity of silver coin which the mint gives in return for standard silver bullion. Before the reformation of the gold coin, the market price of stand... ...fore the reformation of the gold coin, the market price of standard silver bullion was, upon different occasions, five shillings and fourpence, five s... ...ce the reformation of the gold coin, the market price of stan- dard silver bullion has fallen occasionally to five shillings and threepence, five shil...

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...d by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into currant Monies, h...

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...ordeaux shipping intelligence announced that two ves- sels with cargoes of bullion to the amount of seven millions, consigned to the firm of Nucingen,...

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...manner Ricardo’s admirable pam phlets, written during what was called the Bullion contro versy; to these succeeded Adam Smith; and in this reading i... ...is parliamentary life. His writings, following up the impulse given by the Bullion controversy, and followed up in their turn by the expositions and c...

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...ges were wrought with seed-pearls, and fringed with V alenciennes lace and bullion. The walls were hung with cloth of silver, embroidered with gold fi... ...Hangelina Thistlewood, daughter of my exlent frend, John George Godfrey de Bullion Thistlewood, Earl of Bareacres, Baron Southdown, in the Peeridge of... ...he pal- ace of the Tuileries: they sighed when they thought of the lack of bullion in their green and beautiful country. They panted for war! They for...

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... bossed with gold, And the Peacock Banner his henchmen bore Was stiff with bullion, but stiffer with gore. He shot at the strong and he slashed at the...

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...lor’s after a midnight visit, trails after him perhaps a long roll of gold bullion epaulettes which may look pretty by lamplight. But that, in the pre...

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...ca sion, but observed to exercise a fine moral influence, almost equal to bullion, on most beholders. A deaf serving woman and the light porter compl...

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...out it is a letter which, undirected, goes nowhere; ge- nius without it is bullion, sluggish, splendid, and uncirculating.” Now, Pope’s purpose seems,...

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...ern public convenience only, and do not wear any moral aspect, such as the bullion question, never do become subjects of public opinion. It cannot be ...

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...ith wondrous Art founded the massie Ore, Severing each kinde, and scum’d the Bullion dross: A third as soon had form’d within the ground A various mou...

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...porting whole rows of smaller bags; there were hillocks formed of heaps of bullion on the pave- ment; and here and there a pile that was too high had ...

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... - 16 - BOOK I. Milton: Paradise Lost Severing each kinde, and scum’d the Bullion dross: A third as soon had form’d within the ground 705 A vari...

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...ghly than ever; while others, doubt- less, were filling theirs with native bullion by the handful. More recently he had expended a legacy of a thousan...

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...nd a metallic currency, with a touch now and then about the exportation of bullion, and the Emperor of Russia, and bank notes, and all that kind of th...

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...e the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion, You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a comp...

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...nd a metallic currency, with a touch now and then about the exportation of bullion, and the Emperor of Russia, and bank notes, and all that kind of th...

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...ps or scales of the balance were a pair of velvet pouches, the one full of bullion, which overpoised t’other, empty and long, hoisted higher than the ...