A select collection of scarce and valuable tracts and other publications, on the national debt and the sinking fund, from the originals of Harley, Gould, Pulteney, Walpole, Hume, Price, Hamilton, and others : with a preface, notes, and index
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A select collection of scarce and valuable tracts and other publications, on the national debt and the sinking fund, from the originals of Harley, Gould, Pulteney, Walpole, Hume, Price, Hamilton, and others : with a preface, notes, and index
[s.n.], 1857
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"This volume has been printed by Lord Overstone for distribution amongst his friends; the duty of editing it having been kindly undertaken by J.R. McCulloch, Esq."--Verso of half t.p
Half title: Scarce and valuable tracts, &c., on the national debt and the sinking fund
Each tract has also separate paging and some have special title pages
Includes index
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- An essay upon publick credit : being an enquiry how the publick credit comes to depend upon the change of ministry, or the dissolutions of parliaments; and whether it does so or no : with an argument ... / [Robert Harley or Daniel Defoe]
- A letter to a friend : in which is shewn, the inviolable nature of publick securities / by a lover of his country [i.e. Arthur Ashley Sykes]
- An essay on the publick debts of this kingdom, wherein the importance of discharging them is considered; the provisions for that purpose by the sinking fund, and the progress therein hitherto made, are stated and explained ... The third edition / [Sir Nathaniel Gould]
- A state of the national debt, as it stood December the 24th, 1716, with the payments made towards the discharge of it out of the sinking fund, &c. compared with the debt at Michaelmas, 1725 / [William Pulteney]
- A defence of an essay on the publick debts of this kingdom, &c. in answer to a pamphlet, entitled, A state of the national debt, &c. / by the author of the essay [i.e. Sir Nathaniel Gould]
- Representation of the House of Commons to His Majesty George II. shewing the state of the national debts in 1716 and 1726
- Of public credit / by David Hume, Esq. from Essays, moral, political, and literary, published in 1752
- Account of the national debt, from Blackstone's Commentaries, book I. cap. 8
- An appeal to the public, on the subject of the national debt. A new edition with an appendix / by Richard Price ...
- Extracts from a tract entitled The challenge, or, Patriotism put to the test, in a letter to the Rev. Dr. Price / by Jos. Wimpey
- Note on the sinking fund established by Mr. Pitt, in 1786
- Considerations on the annual million bill, and on the real and imaginary properties of a sinking fund
- An inquiry concerning the rise, progress, redemption, present state, and management, of the national debt of Great Britain and Ireland. The third edition, enlarged / by Robert Hamilton ...
