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The aueris. 379αέρ. Whether it must not be ruinous sor a nation to sit down to game, be it with silver or With papertas o. Whether, theresere, the circulating paper, in the late ruinous schemes of France and England, Was the true evit, and not rather the circulating thereos without industry t And whether the bank of Amserdam, where industry had been for so many years subsisted and circulated by transfers on paper, doth not clearly decide this potnt tets 1. Whether there are not to be sten in America fair towns, wherein the peopte are well lodged, sed and clothed, without a beggar in their streeis, although there be not one grain of gold or silver current among them l .asa. Whether these peopte do not egercise ali aris and trades, bui id stips and navigate them to ali paris of the worid, purcha se lands, tili andreap the fruits of them, blay and seli, educate and provide for their chil-drent Whether they do not even indulge thenaseives in foreigia vanitiestas a. Whether, Whatever inconvenien cies those peopte may have incur- red, Dom not observing et ther rules or bounds in their paper- money, yetit be not certain that they are in a more flourishing condition, have largerand better bulli to ns, more plenty, more industry, more aris and civili ty, and a more extensive commerce, than when they had gold and siil-Ver current among them tas . Whether a view of the ruinous essedis of absurd schemes and credit mismanaged, so as to produce gam ing and madne si itastead os industry, can be any just objection against a national bank calculated pure-ly to promote industry ta 35. Whether a scheme sor the welsare of this nation mould not talio in the whole inhabitantst And whether it be not a va in attempi, to pro-
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sso The Queris. ject the fourishing of our protestant gentry, exclusive of the bulli os me
256. Whether an Oath, testisting allegi ance to the hing and disclaim ing the pope's authori ty in temporais, may not be justly required of the Roman catholics t And whether, in common prude iace or poli cy, any prieststaould be tolera ted who refuseth to talie it tet 37. Whether there is a ny such thing as a body of inhabitanis, in any
Roman catholic Country under the sun, that profess an absolute submissionto the pope's orders in matters of an indisserent nature, or that in such potnis do not thinti it their duty to obey the civit go vern mentiet 38. Whether since the peace of Orecti, mast was not celebra ted, and the sacraments administered in divers dioceses of Sicilν, notwith-
sanding the pope's interdicti 239. Whether a sum, Which would go but a litile way towards erect-ing hospitals sor maintaining and educating the children of the native bis
might not go far in binding them out apprentices to protestant masters,sor humandry, useful trades, and the service of familiest 26 o. Whether there be any instance of a people's being converted in a Christi an sense, other i se than by preaching to them and instructing themin their own langu aget 26 I. Whether catechists in the I longue may not easily be procuredand subsistedi And whether this would not be the most practicabie means for converting the natives t262. Whether it be not of great advantage to the church of Rome. that she hath clergy sui ted to ali ranks of men, in gradual subordinationyrom cardinals down to mendicanis '
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263. Whether her numerous Poor clergy a re not very useful in misit-ons, and of much influence with the peoplet 26έ. Whether in desect os able missionaries, persons conversant in to
lise, and si ea Ling the Iriss longiae, is weli instructed in the first principies of religion and in the popim controversy, though for the rest on a levet with the parissi clerks, or the schoolinasters of Charity-schoois, maynot be fit to mix with and bring over our poor illiterate natives to thees ablimed churchi Whether it is not to be wis hed that sonae paris of our liturgy and homilies were publicly read in the bise langu age t And whether, in these views, it may not be right to breed up me of the heltersori os children in the chari ty-schools and quali 0 them for missionaries, catechists and readers t263. Whether a 'squire possessed of land to the value os a thousandPOundS per annum, or a merchant worth twenty thousand pounds in casti Would have most power to do good or evit upon any cmergency t Andwhether the suffering Roman catholics to purchase sorseited lands, would
not be good poticy as tending to unite their interest with that of the
et66. Whether the sta-poris of Galetoo, Limerici, Cork, and Matersordare not to be looked on as keys of this kingdom t And whether the mer-chanis are not possessed of these heys; and who are the most numerous merclianis in those cities tet67. Whether a mercliant cannot more speedily rai se a sum, more ea-sily conceat or transfer his estedis, and engage in any desperate designwith more sesely than a laniled man, whose estate is a pledge for his be-haviour t268. Whether a wealthy mercliant bears not great sway among the
populasse of a trading city 8 And whether po er be not ultimately lodgedin the peoplet 269. Whether,
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269. Whether, as others have suppostd an Atlantis or Eutopia e at may not suppose an hyperborean istand inhabited by rea nable creatures tetro. Whether an indifferent person, who looks into ali hands, may notbe a better judge of the game than a party who stes only his own tet r. Whether there he any country in Christendom more capable os
improvenient than Deland 8272. Whether we are not as far be re other nations with respeet tonatural ad vantages, as we are heliind them Mith respect to aris and in
et a. Whether u e do not live in a most fertile soli and temperate climate, and yet whether our peopte in generat do not stet great want and
27 . Whether my countrymen are not readier at finding excuses than remedies ta s. Whether the wealth and prosperity of our country do not hangby a hair, the probi ty of one banker, the caution of another, and the lives of ali ta 6. Whether Me have not been sufficiently admonimed of this by me late evenis ta 7. Whether a national bank would not at once secure our proper ties, put an end to Usury, facilitate commerce, supply the want of coin, and produce ready paymenis in ali paris of the hingdom tet 8. Whether the u se or nature of money, whicli ali men Q eagerly purie, be yet sufficiently understood or considered by ali ta s. What doth Aristotis mean by s ing-ti,aι λαχ G νόμισμα. de Repub. l. iX. 9.
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ple t286. Whether every man who h ad money enough, would not be agentiem an t And whether a nation os gentiemen would not be a wretched nation tet 87. Whether ait things would not bear a high pricet And whether menwould not increase their fortunes without being the bet ter sor iit et 88. Whether the same evils would be apprehended Dom paper-money under an honest and thri sty regulationi 289. Whether, there re, a national bank Would not be more beneficialthan even a mine of gold t29o. Whether Without private banks what litile busin ess and industrythere is would not stagnate 8 But whether it be not a mighty privilege sora private persion, to be able to create an hundred pound s with a dash of
his pen t29 I. Whether the wi se state of Venice was not the sirst that conceived the ad vant age of a national bank Τ
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lingt29 .. Whether ait payments of contracts for goods in grosi and letters of exchange, must not be made by transfers in the bank books, provideditio sum cxceed three hundred florinstet 93. Whether it be not owing to this banli, that the city of Amser-dam, without the least confusion, hagard or trouble, maintains and everyday promotes so generat and quicli a circulation os industry. 206. Whether it be not the greatest hel p and spur to commerce, that property can be so readily conveyed and eli secured by a comple enhanc, that is, by only writing one mari's name sor another's in the bank-
297. Whether at the heginning of the last century, those who h ad lent money to the public during the war xvith Spain, were not satisfied by the sole expedient of placing their nam es in a compte en bano, with limber ty to transfer their claims t298. Whether the example of those easy transfers in the compte enhanc, thus casualty erected, did not tempt other men to hecome creditorsto the public, in order to prosit by the fame secure and expeditious method of Leeping and transferring their wealth t299. Whether this compte en hanc hath not proved Miter than a mine
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unpromising accident of her having been in debi more than me was
so1. Whether it he known that any sate Dom fuch smali beginnings, in so mort a time, ever grew to Q great wealth and power, a S the Pro- vince of Holland hath done; and whether the bank of Amsteriam hathnot been the real cause of such extraordinary growth tso a. Whether the succese of those public banks in Venice, Amferiam, and Hamburgh, would not naturalty produce in other states an inclinationto the fame methods taos. Whether it be possibie, for a national bank to subsist and maintain iis credit, under a French govern ment t3o . Whether our natural appetites, as Meli as powers, are not limitedio their respective ends and usest But whether artificiat appetites maynot be infinite taos. Whether the simple getling of money, or passing it stom hand to
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enlarging denominations, without lino ing What they Would be at, and without having a proper regard to the use, or end, or nature of thingstgo9. Whether the ignis saltius of fancy doth not kindle immoderate de- si res, and te ad men into endlest pursu iis and wild labyrinthst 3IO. Whether counters he not reserred to other things, whicli se longas they heep pace and proportion with the counters, it must he owned the counters are useful, but whether heyond that to value or covet coun- ters, he not direct solly t3II. Whether the public aim ought not to be that men's industrymouid supply their present wanis, and the ovcrplus be converted into astocli os power tata. Whether the helter this powcr is secured, and the more easi ly itis transferred, industry be not so much the more enco uragedi 3I3. Whether money, more than is expedient sor those purposes, benot iapon the whole hiartii, rather than beneficiat to a state ta I . Whether the promoting of industry mould not be always in vie as the true and sole en d , the rule and mea sure os a national bankt Andwhether ali deviations isto in that objecit mould not be carefulty a voi dedis is Whether it may not be usefui, sor supplying manufactu res and trade with stocli, sor regulat ing exchange, sor qui cliening commerce, sorpuit ing spirit in to the peopte t
316. Whether We a re sussciently sensibie of the peculiar security thereis in having a barali, that consi sis of land and paper, one of whicli cannot be exported, and the other is in no danger of being exportedis 1 . Whether it be not delightsul to complaint And whether there benot many who had rather ulter their complainis than redress their eviis t
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seoli inest peopte in Christendom is I9. Whcther we have not ali the while great civit a s weli as natural ad vantages t32O. Whether there be any people, who have more let re to culti vatethe aris of peace, and study the public Realta et I. Whether other nations who enjoy any mare of Deedom, and have great objects in vi eis, he not unavo id ably embarrassed and distracted by factions ' But umether we do not divide iapon trisses, and whether ourparties a re not a burtesque u pon politi cst aget. Whether it be not an ad vantage that we are not embroiled in fo- rei gn assairs, that we hold not the balance of Europe, that we are protected by other fleets and armies, that it is the true interest os a powersulpeople, from Whom we are descended, to guard us on ali sides t
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cence, and whether sor Want thereos, they do not affect very wretcheddistinctions ta 28. Whether there he not an ari or skill in Fuerning human pride,so as to render ii subservient to the public aim t329. Whether the great and general aim of the public mouid not be toemploy the peopte tago. What right an eldest son hath to the worst educationi33Ι. Whether men's counseis are not the result of their linowledge and their principies t332. Whether there be not labour of the brains as weli as of the hands, and whether the former is beneath a gentieman t333. Whether the public be more interessed, to protect the propertyacquired by mere hirili, than that whicli is the immediate fruit os learning and virtve t33 . Whether it would not be a poor and illJudged project to attemptio promote the good of the communi ty, by invading the rights of one
Part thereos, or of one particular order of men t335. Whether there be a more wretched, and at the fame time a morounpit ted case, than for men to malae precedents for their own undoingt336. Whether to determine about the righis and properties of men byother rules than the law, he not dangerous t 337. Whether those men, who move the corner-stones of a Constitu