"Love Me Little, Love Me Long.", Volume 1

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Harper & Brothers, 1859 - English fiction - 435 pages

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Page 45 - The man whose knowledge all comes from reading accumulates a great number of what — facts ? no, of the shadows of facts ; shadows often so thin, indistinct, and featureless, that, when one of the facts themselves runs against him in real life, he does not know his old friend, round about which he has written a smart leader in a journal, and a ponderous trifle in the Polysyllabic Review.
Page 195 - The whole paper money of every kind which can easily circulate in any country never can exceed the value of the gold and silver, of which it supplies the place, or which (the commerce being supposed the same) would circulate there, if there was no paper money.
Page 195 - ... upon the banks to be exchanged for gold and silver. Many people would immediately perceive that they had more of this paper than was necessary for transacting their business at home, and as they could not send it abroad, they would immediately demand payment of it from the banks.

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