Circulating

Examples

• The capital of a merchant, for example, is altogether a circulating capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It can seldom happen that much can be spared from the circulating money of the country; because in that there can seldom be much redundancy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The circulating capital of a society is in this respect different from that of an individual. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It restrains the circulation of each particular company within a narrower circle, and reduces their circulating notes to a smaller number. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• My sisters used to subscribe to little circulating libraries in the neighbourhood, for the common novels of the day; but I always hated these. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating capitals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Land, however improved, will yield no revenue without a circulating capital, which maintains the labourers who cultivate and collect its produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The whole capital of the undertaker of every work is necessarily divided between his fixed and his circulating capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Different occupations require very different proportions between the fixed and circulating capitals employed in them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In this circulating vaporous disk about the sun differences of density give rise to zones not unlike the rings of Saturn. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• No fixed capital can yield any revenue but by means of a circulating capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the one case it is a fixed, in the other it is a circulating capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is the circulating capital which furnishes the materials and wages of labour, and puts industry into motion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There were none in her father's house; but wealth is luxurious and daring, and some of hers found its way to a circulating library. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The circulating gold and silver of the country had not been supposed to exceed ?18,000,000. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Readers with full stomachs, who complain of being surfeited and overloaded with the story-telling trash of our circulating libraries? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Both the price and the maintenance of the cattle which are bought in and fattened, not for labour, but for sale, are a circulating capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• With regard to the latter, it seems to have made scarce any distinction between real and circulating bills, but to have discounted all equally. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every fixed capital is both originally derived from, and requires to be continually supported by, a circulating capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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