A Practical Treatise on Banking, 1. köideLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856 - 723 pages |
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accepter accommodation bills advances amount of notes annuities balance balance-sheet bank notes Bank of England Bank of Ireland Banking Company banking department bill-brokers bills discounted bills of exchange branch brokers called capital cash column cashiers cent centimes cheque circulation clerks coin country banks current account customers Day-Book debit deeds deposits directors dividend draft drawn duties employed England notes entered entry establishment exchequer bills favour General-Ledger give gold Government securities hand hence increase indorsed invested issue department joint-stock banks keep Ledger letters loans London bankers loss manager ment Messrs notice obtain operations paid party payable person pound sterling pounds present principle profit promissory note proprietors rate of interest receipt received respect Scotland seasons of pressure shareholders shares shillings speculation stamp duty Steady & Co surplus fund tion transactions United Kingdom usually
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Page 265 - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Page 22 - And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
Page 196 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 22 - Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
Page 20 - He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Page 201 - For the correspondencies of wisdom and goodness are manifold ; and that they will accompany each other is to be inferred, not only because men's wisdom makes them good, but also because their goodness makes them wise.
Page 23 - Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
Page 265 - When the human hand, or the human head, has been for some time occupied in any kind of work, it cannot instantly change its employment with full effect. The muscles of the limbs employed have acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement. Long habit also produces in the muscles exercised a capacity for enduring fatigue to a much greater degree than they could support under other circumstances.