Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History of Usury From the Earliest Period to the Present Time: Together With a Brief Statement of General Principles Concerning the Conflict of the Laws in Different States and Countries, and an Examination Into the Policy of Laws on Usury and Their Effect Upon Commerce
Sword than the pen, have unfitted him to wield the latter with that ease and success at which his ambit tion aims, and with less of familiarity than formerly belonged to him; and partly, also, from a sense of the great difficulty in adequately coping with a sub ject of such importance as the one he has now attempted. But as the work contains a great deal of new and curious matter never before collected together, and which the author believes will be.
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