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Updated: May 31, 2025
The tap-room was crowded that night, but we all 'ad to pay threepence each coining money, I call it. Some o' the things wot he done was very clever, but a'most from the fust start-off there was unpleasantness.
While the hysterical newspaper people are venting abuse and coining theories, there are quiet workers in thousands who go on in uncomplaining steadfastness striving to remove a deadly shame from our civilisation, and smiling softly at the furious cries of folk who know so little and vociferate so much.
I have just been reading a most pathetic copy of verses on Sophia Pringle, who was hanged and burned for coining. A note explains, by "forger," her right hand, with which she forged or coined the base metal. For "pathos" read "bathos." You have put me out of conceit with my blank verse by your "Religious Musings." I think it will come to nothing. I do not like 'em enough to send 'em.
He desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into artificial oyster beds.
Accordingly during the Cinnan government an enactment was passed by the praetors and tribunes, primarily by Marcus Marius Gratidianus, for redeeming all the token-money by silver, and for that purpose an assay-office was established. How far the calling-in was accomplished, tradition has not told us; the coining of token-money itself continued to subsist.
It is equally visible in the forms of colonial administration. During the Middle Ages the dukes and counts of France had been great territorial lords levying their own armies, coining their own money, holding power of life and death over their vassals. In that period Normandy, Brittany, Maine, Anjou, Toulouse, and many other districts, were subject to the king in name only.
Half the hackney coachmen, he says, were in league with thieves. The number of receiving houses for stolen goods had increased in twenty years from 300 to 3000. Coining was a flourishing trade, and according to Colquhoun employed several thousand persons.
A question of public honesty had arisen in the midst of the struggle for the faith, and the Reformers had seized the Mint to prevent the coining of base money, which the Regent was carrying on for her necessities, and which the Congregation, no doubt justly, considered ruinous to the trade of the country; and the determined struggle with the Queen in respect to her scheme for fortifying Leith and establishing a French garrison there, a continual check upon and menace to the freedom of the capital, was at least as much a question of politics as religion.
I touch the weight attached to his thigh, and he exclaims: "Ma doue! Ma doue! Caste! Caste!" These are oaths of a kind, of his own coining, which make every one laugh, and himself the first. He adds, as he does every day: "Doctor, you never hurt me so much before as you have done this time." Then he laughs again. Lens is not asleep yet, but he is as silent as usual.
Marsh. Molly Healy, from her secluded place, strained her ears to catch her brother's answer. "Naturally I did," he said. "Desmond is a great man now, a partner in the firm of Jackson and Company, and coining money, they tell me." With this he intended to content them, but Dr. Marsh asked, inquisitively: "Did you bring him back to your Church?" "I did not try.
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