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II. into halves and quarters, is difprovcd by the Coins now exant, whereon the croflcs generally terminate at the inner circle, and inftead of being impreffed, are imbofied, which prevents their being broken equally: nor is there any thing like it, till Henry the Third made a double crofs upon his Penny, who likewiie coined fmaller pieces*
An Historical Account of English Money: Illus. with Copper Plates and Tables of Gold and Silver ... Stephen Martin Leake 1793
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It has fince received three very capital improvements, befides, probably, many fmaller ones of which it may be difficult to aicertain either the number or the importance.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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As foon as it was day, we faw a great prow, built like the lilmdanajran prows, with about fixty men in her; and fix fmaller prows.
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In a decaying ma -, nufa&are, on the contrary, many workmen, ra - ther than quit their old trade, are contented with fmaller wages than would otherwife be fuitable to the nature of their employments The profits of ftoGk vary with the price of the commodities in which it is employed.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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Amongft the birds are parrots, fomewhat fmaller than the common grey ones: par - roquets, not larger than a fparrow, of a fine yelloiirflh green, with bright azure on the crown of the head, and the throat and belly red.
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The children produced by thefe marriages, may be known to the third and fourth generation, efpecially by the eyes, which are much fmaller than in the immixed pro - geny of Europeans.
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They would have been produced by a fmaller quan - tity of labour; and as the commodities pro* duced by equal quantities of labour would naturally in this flate of things be exchanged for one another, they would have been pur - chafed likewife with the produce of a fmaller quantity.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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* -- Q £ them to exchange for a fmaller of goods of any other kind.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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Though the annual purchafes of all the confumers, therefore, are at leafl equal in value to thofe of all the dealers, they can gene - rally be tranfa£ted with a much fmaller quan - tity of money; the fame pieces, by a more rapid circulation, ferving as the inftrument of many more purchafes of the one kind than of the other,
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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The fowls we faw and knew, were pigeons, parrots, cockadores, and crows like thofe in England; a fort of birds about the bienefs of a black-bird, and fmaller birds many.
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