The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 164
g, which was performed in the year1800 by the French under Massena, was so disastrous that the banknever recovered from its effects. It differed from the Bank of Veniceand other banking concerns in having a body corporate with its ownseparate laws, and officers quite distinct from, and independent… … BANK-BILL OF 1522. Did it not conduct a great deal of business which is not usuallyattended to by banks in these modern days ? Fred asked. Oh yes, was the reply ; not only did it receive deposits and lendmoney, but it coined money of its own, built churches, palaces, ware-houses, and monasteries;…
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