 | JOESPH GALES - 1834 - 594 pages
...value are a great accommodation, and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase, in small portions, and at a more reasonable...necessaries of which they stand in need. If there are onlycents, the lowest price for any portion of a vendible commodity, however inconsiderable in quantity,... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury - Finance - 1837 - 578 pages
...value are a great accommodation, and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase, in small portions, and at a more reasonable...be a cent ; if there are half cents, it will be a halfcent ; and. in a great number of cases, exactly the same things will be sold for n half-cent which,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 626 pages
...value are a great accommodation, and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase in small portions, and at a more reasonable...rate, the necessaries of which they stand in need. To enable them to procure necessaries cheap, is to enable them, with more comfort to themselves, to... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 594 pages
...value are a great accommodation, and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase in small portions, and at a more reasonable...rate, the necessaries of which they stand in need. To enable them to procure necessaries cheap, is to enable them, with more comfort to themselves, to... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 596 pages
...value are a great accommodation, and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase in small portions, and at a more reasonable...rate, the necessaries of which they stand in need. To enable them to procure necessaries cheap, is to enable them, with more comfort to themselves, to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1879 - 998 pages
...of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase, in small portions, and at a move reasonable rate, the necessaries of which they stand...will be a cent; if there are half cents, it will be a half-cent ; and, in a great number of cases, exactly the same things will be sold for a half cent which,... | |
 | Currency question - 1879 - 956 pages
...value are a great accommodation, and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase, in small portions, and at a more reasonable...portion of a vendible commodity, however inconsiderable iu quantity, will be a cent; if there are half cents, it will be a half-cent ; and, in a great number... | |
 | Money - 1879 - 918 pages
...value are a great accommodation, and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase, in small portions, and at a more reasonable...necessaries of which they stand in need. If there aro only cents, the lowest price for any portion of a vendible commodity, however inconsiderable in... | |
 | Robert E. Preston - Currency question - 1896 - 140 pages
...value are a great accommodation, and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase, in small portions, and at a more reasonable...only cents, the lowest price for any portion of a vendable commodity, however inconsiderable in quantity, will be a cent; if there are half cents, it... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 522 pages
...value are a great accommodation and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase in small portions and at a more reasonable...will be a cent; if there are half cents, it will be a half-cent; and in a great number of cases exactly the same things will be sold for a halfcent, which,... | |
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The largest copper piece will nearly answer to the half-penny sterling, and the smallest, of course, to the farthing. Pieces of very small value are a great accommodation, and the means of a beneficial economy to the poor, by enabling them to purchase,... 
