A Practical Treatise on Banking, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
agents amount of gold amount of notes balance bank notes Bank of England Bank of Ireland Bank of London Bank of Scotland bankers Banking Company banks of issue Belfast bonus branch bank branches British Linen Company bullion cash credit cent charter cheques Clearing-house Clydesdale Bank Commercial Bank committee country banks country circulation currency current accounts deposit accounts deposits directors discount Ditto dividend Dublin duties Edinburgh enacted England notes exchequer bills favour fund Glasgow Government governor and company increase issue notes joint-stock banks London and Westminster London bankers Lord manager meeting ment months moral paid paid-up capital parties passed payable payment persons present principle private banks profit proprietors Prov Provincial Bank public companies rate of interest receipts receive regulate Report securities shareholders shares small notes thee tion trade transactions Ulster Bank Union Bank unto Westminster Bank
Popular passages
Page 705 - Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 668 - For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Page 686 - Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. " But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort ? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
Page 687 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 711 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 684 - Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping His commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day...
Page 682 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 673 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 671 - Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
Page 669 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.