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...B. W. Barnard Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 The Private Coinage of Gold Tokens in the South and West B. W. Barnard Fellow in Economics and Social Institutions in Princeton University During the first half of the nineteenth century, before the discovery of gold in California...

... efforts of politicians with debtor constituencies, and giving inflation a silver connotation. In dealing with the demand for currency expansion through silver coinage, various presidents have sometimes en­ deavored to deflect the agitation into foreign channels through confidential diplomatic agencies...

... belonging not only to that time, but to all time, on which he expressed decided views. On the questions of tariff, navy, and coinage he was in advance of his age. The navy was his favorite subject. This, we must remember, was at a time when the navy was in disfavor. It had been but a short time since...

... belonging not only to that time, but to all time, on which he expressed decided views. On the questions of tariff, navy, and coinage he was in advance of his age. The navy was his favorite subject. This, we must remember, was at a time when the navy was in disfavor. It had been but a short time since...

... radicalism as was the silver-tongued Grady, Hoke Smith and the Journal still sought common ground with desperate farmers by urging stronger railway regulation, a graduated income tax, tariff reform, and at this early stage of the game the free coinage of silver. When Georgia farmers started metamorphos­ ing...

... Smith and the Journal still sought common ground with desperate farmers by urging stronger railway regulation, a graduated income tax, tariff reform, and at this early stage of the game the free coinage of silver. When Georgia farmers started metamorphos­ ing from Alliance Democrats into Populists...

...; pages 122, 125, a Greek coinage for partridge shooting; page 132, the Greek words, a pun on Demosthenes, should be reversed, as an earlier but more inaccurate version of the letter in Julian Works VII, 312 shows. Most of the other quotations are either echoes of a Greek phrase, like winged words (p...

... by an account of the government s experiments in taxa­ tion, farm aid, famine relief, etc. Memorials suggesting important economic changes are quoted in full. There follows an account of the coinage and the government s experiments in depreciating the coinage, preventing counterfeiting, raising extra revenue...

... more than sanction the then existing coinage. By recodification of the monetary laws no provision was made for silver coinage because at the time it was not profitable to coin silver and none was presented at the mint. Only after the cheapening of silver as a result of the discovery of new mines...

... Nonnos, Dionysiaca XIII. 47-52; page 118, the in­ 262 The South Atlantic Quarterly accurate quotation is from Theocritus, Idyll XV. 112-113, 120; pages 122, 125, a Greek coinage for partridge shooting; page 132, the Greek words, a pun on Demosthenes, should be reversed, as an earlier but more inaccurate...

... and internal nature first shown us by a painter or poet, are labeled truths-to. The word is of course a neat parallel to truths-about, which the author applies to the propositional elements of science. But the coinage strikes one as being a little strained, and the simple word fidelity (to experience), 248...

... metapoetic trope, which purveys the notion of a cathartic or cleansing action, is no less than 460  The South Atlantic Quarterly • July 2016 the “sweep” of Cahier itself, which alludes to the purging of all retrograde, internalized devaluations of blacks. The erudite Latinate coinage verrition...

... and prophets. Instances of this are our coinage, taxation, the family, the church, and government. While all of these are the results of the birth-throes of the human spirit, perhaps the costliest single product of man s long labor is reverence for law. The heinous­ ness of lynching is seen just here...

.... has fallen into such competent hands. The result is a satisfactorytext for use with college classes and a valuable reference work for the general reader. In the treatment of his subject the author gives a broad scope to the term financial history, including a consideration of coinage and bank issues...

... demands: tax reduction and equalization, revision of the protective tariff, prevention of trusts, no con­ traction of the circulating medium, railroads to remain com­ petitive, free and unlimited coinage of silver, public officials to be servants not masters of the people.46 No mention is made of the sub...

..., to the colloquial slant and word-coinage of the man on the street. Witness the conversational flexibility of a Frost or a Sandburg or the adaptation by such poets as Auden and MacNeice of Gerard Manley Hopkins s sprung and counterpointed rhythms to assimilate scientific terms and trade marks, gears and gadgets...

..., in Joyce s Benefictions (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964, $4.50) sees the progress of Joyce s work from Dubliners to Finnegan s Wake as a growing com­ mand over the comic literary mode. The fictions, in Joycean coinage benefictions, move toward increasing formal realization...

... and oth­ er Siberian border peoples in an imperial edict of 1693.® The sale or exchange of gold, silver, and foreign coinage (efimki, especially Albert thalers and Joachim thalers) across Siberian borders was also forbidden by the same decree and remained denied or re­ stricted throughout most...

... that a great new ocean existed to the west. The first to investigate the truth of these rumors was an early Spanish gov­ ernor, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, whose memory is still perpetuated in the coinage of Panama. The chief monetary unit of Panama bears his name. Balboa lived on friendly terms with the native...

... York Times, 6 December 1992, F12. 6 WELL-user known as outrider, in the topic Flame Box, in the Mondo 2000 conference, 29 March 1993. 7 The mirror image of electromechanical, mechatronic" is a Japanese coinage; meaning the fusion of machinery and electronics," it stresses the importance...