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27 July 1801
as to be put into it, can never pass for the
wheel itself: therefore an Exchequer Bill
is a sort of a thing that can never pass
for money.+ + p.86, 66. Q.S.D. N.B. By the same argument
it may be proved, that no one species sort
of money is money: for there is no one sort
of money that is not made to go in change
for – that is that bought by and with –
money of an other sort every other sort.
It is a pity the learned Baronet had not
this pamphelt, with its theories, at his hand elbow: – he should have
it at his finger's ends: it would enable him,
if possible, to misunderstand the subject more
compleatly than he has done, It would
teach him⊞ ⊞ if he wanted teaching, how to triumph, and at the very best
time for triumphing – the time he has himself chosen –
before the battle. For the Baronet, with his ewes and lambs has
not triumphed more unmercifully over a little
man, than the Banker, with his wheels and
circulators, over a great one.+ + Mr Pitt: Boyd 2d edit. Postscript pp. 83-87.
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