 | Edward Pugh - 1806 - 688 pages
...members. It acts not only as an ordinary bank, but as a great engine of state; receiving and pnying the greater part of the annuities which are due to the creditors of the public ; circulating Exchequer bills ; and advancing to government the annual amount of the land and malt... | |
 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1806 - 686 pages
...members. It acts not only as an ordinary bank, but as a great engine of state; receiving and paying the greater part of the annuities which are due to the creditors of th« public ; circulating Exchequer bills ; and advancing to government the annual amount of the land... | |
 | Joseph Guy - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1810 - 548 pages
...as an ordinary bank, but (as we have 'already seen) as a great engine of state; receiving and paying 'the greater part of the annuities which are due to the creditors of the public ; circulating exchequer/ •bills; and advancing to government. the annual amount Of the land and malt... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1819 - 758 pages
...Bank (Wtyfi Smith, book ii. chap. g,) aett not «nly as an ordinary hank, but as an engine of statf- ; it receives and pays the greater part of the annuities...which are due to the creditors of the public." (It is worth observing, that the public, or the Nation, is always put for the Government in speaking of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...as an ordinary hank, hut (as we have already seen) as a great engine of state j receiving and paying the greater part of the annuities which are due to the creditors of the public ; circulating exchequer bills ; and advancing to government the annual amount of the land and malt... | |
 | Henry Thomas (antiquarian.) - 1830 - 490 pages
...members. It acts not only as an ordinary bank, but as a great engine of state ; receiving and paying the greater part of the annuities which are due to the creditors of the public ; circulating exchequer bills ; and 301 advancing to Government the annual amount of the land and malt... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1835 - 522 pages
...lent to government and wasted long ago. . " The bank (says Smith, book ii. chap. 2.) acts not only as an ordinary bank, but as a great engine of state...which are due to the creditors of the public." (It is worth observing, that the public, or the nation, is always put for the government, in speaking of... | |
 | Robert Torrens - Banks and banking - 1837 - 88 pages
...conducts all the monetary transactions of the Government. " It " acts," says Adam Smith, " not only as an " ordinary bank, but as a great engine of "...due to the " creditors of the public ; it circulates exche" quer bills, and it advances to Government " the annual amount of the land and malt " taxes,... | |
 | Robert Torrens - Banks and banking - 1837 - 70 pages
...conducts all the monetary transactions of the Government. " It " acts," says Adam Smith, " not only as an " ordinary bank, but as a great engine of "...due to the " creditors of the public; it circulates exche" quer bills, and it advances to Government " the annual amount of the land and malt " taxes,... | |
 | William Guthrie - 1843 - 848 pages
...ordinary bank, but as a great engine of state. It receives and pays the greater part of the annuities that are due to the creditors of the public; it circulates...and it advances to government the annual amount of various taxes. It likewise discounts the bills of merchants ; and has, upon several occasions, supported... | |
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It acts, not only as an ordinary bank, but as a great engine of state. It receives and pays the greater part of the annuities which are due to the creditors of the publie ; it circulates exchequer bills ; and it advances to government the annual amount... 
