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Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians
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How much net worth you have at present?
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At present there is only one set; the previous occupant having omitted to return the second set when Stephen bought the house
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‘James isn’t in at present … but he’ll be back shortly
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‘… and that is only an estimate at present
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… I’m tied up two days a week with ‘Mack & Mabel’ at present so they’re out … how would Tuesdays be? I’ve got Abi here for a piano lesson at 4
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'Australia is touring India at present, right?' Ish said as the waiter packed our
8.
This time it was Belle who interrupted, “Forgive me but, this is a matter of 'tradition'? That's what this comes down to? Tradition? Perhaps you have failed to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the situation we are at present engaged
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Next time … hmmm … although she didn’t repudiate the idea that she would need to take refuge in the house at some time in the future, at present, there was little sign that it would be necessary soon
10.
The families have been informed and we are, at present, dealing with the incident with the utmost urgency
11.
It seems he has nowhere to go at present and no money either
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Finally, assuring himself with the satisfaction that all things would eventually be known, which were at present simply unknown and not in the realm of the unknowable, he rested
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Her name was Sarah Bunker and she was at present between teaching assignments and condescended to accept the Tahoe City's invitation to start-up their fledgling school
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Her employer as a friend (who is my employer at present) approached her if she has any relative to recommend to her to take care on her expected baby
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I found out that parts for the Boeing 777 are particularly scarce at present, making this a plausible motive
16.
This is all that I think necessary to be observed at present concerning the deviations, whether occasional or permanent, of the market price of commodities from the natural price
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Potatoes, for example, do not at present, through the greater part of the kingdom, cost half the price which they used to do thirty or forty years ago
18.
In fact, at present there was only a handful of mages who were of the Sixth
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When such occupiers were more numerous than they are at present, they are said to have been
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wages, when he came to be a complete workman, would be much less than at present
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pounds a-year is reckoned at present very good pay for a curate; and, notwithstanding this act
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colleges, in which education is carried on, was more reasonable than it is at present through
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Their ordinary price, at present, is about three times greater than at the beginning of the century, and the rents of many Highland estates have been tripled and quadrupled in the same time
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Holland is at present in this situation; and a considerable part of ancient Italy seems to have been so during the prosperity of the Romans
25.
Through the greater part of Europe, a kitchen garden is not at present supposed to deserve a better inclosure than mat recommended by Columella
26.
In France, the anxiety of the proprietors of the old vineyards to prevent the planting of any new ones, seems to favour their opinion, and to indicate a consciousness in those who must have the experience, that this species of cultivation is at present in that country more profitable than any other
27.
It seems, at the same time, however, to indicate another opinion, that this superior profit can last no longer than the laws which at present restrain the free cultivation of the vine
28.
Should this root ever become in any part of Europe, like rice in some rice countries, the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, so as to occupy the same proportion of the lands in tillage, which wheat and other sorts of grain for human food do at present, the same quantity of cultivated land would maintain a much greater number of people ; and the labourers being generally fed with potatoes, a greater surplus would remain after replacing all the stock, and maintaining all the labour employed in cultivation
29.
Population would increase, and rents would rise much beyond what they are at present
30.
Before the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, the most fertile mines in Europe may have afforded as great a rent to their proprietors as the richest mines in Peru do at present
31.
In 1554, by the 1st and 2nd of Philip and Mary, and in 1558, by the 1st of Elizabeth, the exportation of wheat was in the same manner prohibited, whenever the price of the quarter should exceed six shillings and eightpence, which did not then contain two penny worth more silver than the same nominal sum does at present
32.
In 1562, therefore, by the 5th of Elizabeth, the exportation of wheat was allowed from certain ports, whenever the price of the quarter should not exceed ten shillings, containing nearly the same quantity of silver as the like nominal sum does at present
33.
But in 1562, the year at which he ends with it, it contained no more than the same nominal sum does at present
34.
How far the bounty could produce this effect at any time I shall examine hereafter: I shall only observe at present, that between 1688 and 1700, it had not time to produce any such effect
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In the course of the present century, the silver coin has not at any time been more below its standard weight than it is at present
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But in the beginning of the present century, that is, immediately after the great recoinage in King William's time, the greater part of the current silver coin must have been still nearer to its standard weight than it is at present
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The country gentlemen, who then composed a still greater proportion of the legislature than they do at present, had felt that the money price of corn was falling
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I shall only observe at present, that this rise in the value of silver, in proportion to that of corn, has not been peculiar to England
39.
After all the wonderful tales which have been published concerning the splendid state of those countries in ancient times, whoever reads, with any degree of sober judgment, the history of their first discovery and conquest, will evidently discern that, in arts, agriculture, and commerce, their inhabitants were much more ignorant than the Tartars of the Ukraine are at present
40.
At present, the value of the tea annually imported by the English East India company, for the use of their own countrymen, amounts to more than a million and a half a year; and even this is not enough; a great deal more being constantly smuggled into the country from the ports of Holland, from Gottenburgh in Sweden, and from the coast of France, too, as long as the French East India company was in prosperity
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become so fashionable as to sell for twenty guineas a-piece, no effort of human industry could increase the number of those brought to market, much beyond what it is at present
42.
The real value of silver was higher at Rome, for sometime before, and after the fall of the republic, than it is through the greater part of Europe at present
43.
The value of silver, therefore, in those ancient times, must have been to its value in the present, as three to four inversely ; that is, three ounces of silver would then have purchased the same quantity of labour and commodities which four ounces will do at present
44.
If venison continues in fashion, and the wealth and luxury of Great Britain increase as they have done for some time past, its price may very probably rise still higher than it is at present
45.
In most parts of Great Britain it is at present somewhat higher
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In those ancient times, a tod of wool would have purchased twice the quantity of subsistence which it will purchase at present, and consequently twice the quantity of labour, if the real recompence of labour had been the same in both periods
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Its nominal price was a good deal lower than at present
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An ox hide, therefore, would in those times have purchased as much corn as ten shillings and threepence would purchase at present
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But at half-a-crown the stone, which at this moment (February 1773) I understand to be the common price, such a hide would at present cost only ten shillings
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The price of raw hides is a good deal lower at present than it was a few years ago; owing probably to the taking off the duty upon seal skins, and to the allowing, for a limited time, the importation of raw hides from Ireland, and from the plantations, duty free, which was done in 1769
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A shilling might, in the one case, represent no more labour than a penny does at present ; and a penny, in the other, might represent as much as a shilling does now
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But in the one case, he who had a shilling in his pocket would be no richer than he who has a penny at present; and in the other, he who had a penny would be just as rich as he who has a shilling now
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I shall only observe at present, that the high value of the precious metals can be no proof of the poverty or barbarism of any particular country at the time when it took place
54.
But the reduction will appear much more sensible and undeniable, if we compare the price of this manufacture in the present times with what it was in a much remoter period, towards the end of the fifteenth century, when the labour was probably much less subdivided, and the machinery employed much more imperfect, than it is at present
55.
The commerce of Scotland, which at present is not very great, was still more inconsiderable when the two first banking companies were established ; and those companies would have had but little trade, had they confined their business to the discounting of bills of exchange
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sheep, though, at present, their few herds are only
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From the beginning of the last century to the present time, provisions never were cheaper in Scotland than in 1759, though, from the circulation of ten and five shilling bank notes, there was then more paper money in the country than at present
58.
Thus, at present, in the opulent countries of Europe, a very large, frequently the largest, portion of the produce of the land, is destined for replacing the capital of the rich and independent farmer ; the other for paying his profits, and the rent of the landlord
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In the opulent countries of Europe, great capitals are at present employed in trade and manufactures
60.
At present, the rate of interest, in the improved parts of Europe, is nowhere higher than six per cent
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Though at present few people, I believe, doubt of this, yet during this period five years have seldom passed away, in which some book or pamphlet has not been published, written, too, with such abilities as to gain some authority with the public, and pretending to demonstrate that the wealth of the nation was fast declining; that the country was depopulated, agriculture neglected, manufactures decaying, and trade undone
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The annual produce of its land and labour is undoubtedly much greater at present than it was either at the Restoration or at the Revolution
63.
At present our bathing arrangement at our living quarters is open and all bathe together, men and women
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In Scotland, more than one fifth, perhaps more than one third part of the whole lands in the country, are at present supposed to be under strict entail
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gradually succeeded a species of farmers, known at present in France by the name of metayers
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They have been so long in disuse in England, that at present I know no English name for them
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In all the different countries of Europe then, in the same manner as in several of the Tartar governments of Asia at present, taxes used to be levied upon the persons and goods of travellers, when they passed through certain manors, when they went over certain bridges, when they carried about their goods from place to place in a fair, when they erected in it a booth or stall to sell them in
68.
In some places it is so at this day; nor will money at present purchase a greater quantity of commodities there than in other places
69.
It is not impossible, too, notwithstanding this general expression of one of the most judicious and reserved of modern historians, that Italy was not at that time better cultivated than England is at present
70.
The quantity of circulating money must have borne the same proportion, to the number and value of purchases and sales usually transacted at that time, which it does to those transacted at present ; or, rather, it must have borne a greater proportion, because there was then no paper, which now occupies a great part of the employment of gold and silver
71.
In fact, had he appreciated the sincerity in her words, it would have caused him additional rage - added to that at present
72.
So that there may be in Europe at present, not only more than three times, but more than twenty or thirty times the quantity of plate which would have been in it, even in its present state of improvement, had the discovery of the American mines never been made
73.
The province of Holland, accordingly, is said to follow this maxim at present
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If there were no bounty, as less corn would be exported, suit is probable that, one year with another, less would be imported than at present
75.
He wasn’t sure if it was the knowing grin the stranger wore or those shocking eyes of his or the feeling that he truly did know who he was and what he was after – and not just the mere location of the two Bretons at present
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It is at present the opinion of the most intelligent men in France, that his operations of this kind have not been beneficial to his country
77.
One of the most important branches of the Dutch trade at present, consists in the carriage of French goods to other European countries
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At present they are supposed to constitute but a very small part of it
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rosters and such that never see the light of day except on the rarest of occasions…such as when calamities like the ones at present occur
80.
At present, drunkenness is by no means the vice of people of fashion, or of those who can easily afford the most expensive liquors
81.
However that is not what we have license to do at present
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The excise duty upon Scotch salt is at present 1s:6d
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The boat-fishery; accordingly, which, before the establishment of the buss-bounty, was very considerable, and is said to have employed a number of seamen, not inferior to what the buss-fishery employs at present, is now gone almost entirely to decay
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In case of any of those accidents to which no trade is more liable than theirs, they would find in their ordinary customer, the wealthy corn merchant, a person who had both an interest to support them, and the ability to do it ; and they would not, as at present, be entirely dependent upon the forbearance of their landlord, or the mercy of his steward
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Were it possible, as perhaps it is not, to establish this intercourse universally, and all at once ; were it possible to turn all at once the whole farming stock of the kingdom to its proper business, the cultivation of land, withdrawing it from every other employment into which any part of it may be at present diverted; and were it possible, in order to support and assist, upon occasion, the operations of this great stock, to provide all at once another stock almost equally great; it is not, perhaps, very easy to imagine how great, how extensive, and how sudden, would be the improvement which this change of circumstances would alone produce upon the whole face of the country
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Brynjolf however thought better of mentioning such a thing at present
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If importation was at all times free, our farmers and country gentlemen would probably, one year with another, get less money for their corn than they do at present, when importation is at most times in effect prohibited ; but the money which they got would be of more value, would buy more goods of all other kinds, and would employ more labour
88.
Their real wealth, their real revenue, therefore, would be the same as at present, though it might be expressed by a smaller quantity of silver, and they would neither be disabled nor discouraged from cultivating corn as much as they do at present
89.
To procure both the gold which it wants for its own use, and the consumable goods, would, in this way, employ a much smaller capital than at present
90.
The annual surplus of gold in Portugal, besides, would still be sent abroad, and though not carried away by Great Britain, would be carried away by some other nation, which would be glad to sell it again for its price, in the same manner as Great Britain does at present
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In the countries first discovered by the Spaniards, no gold and silver mines are at present known which are supposed to be worth the working
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In the English, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies, none have ever yet been discovered, at least none that are at present supposed to be worth the working
93.
In this state of things, it seems impossible that either of those empires could have been so much improved or so well cultivated as at present, when they are plentifully furnished with all sorts of European cattle, and when the use of iron, of the plough, and of many of the arts of Europe, have been introduced among them
94.
Of course, he also could not remember a conversation with such a stranger stretching on as long as the one at present, either
95.
At present, the company allows all Dutch ships to trade to Surinam, upon paying two and a-half per cent
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They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce
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Since it fell into those of the English, almost all works of this kind have been given up; and there are at present (October 1773), I am assured, not above two or three remaining in the island
98.
At present, however, by an indulgence of the custom-house, clayed or refined sugar, if reduced from loaves into powder, is commonly imported as Muscovado
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sugar-cane, as it is managed at present, is all hand labour ; though, in the opinion of many, the drill plough might be introduced into it with great advantage
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"On Christmas Eve, we would make sure we got what presents we could together