In the original

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In the original

In the original, it is simply called silver, which word is applied inExod. xxi. . to a slave, " He is his masters silver:" or, as our version has it, "money" "By the same word is meant tory burch outlet also gold, brass, meat, raiment, or any other thing, as is explained, Lev. xxv. , .; Deut. xxiii. .; and as we are elsewhere commanded to lend, Deut. xv. , ; Luke vi. ." When the Egyptians themselves, after parting with all their silver, had sold their cattle, and, last of all, their lands, to Pharaoh for corn, during the seven years' famine, the rent they paid thenceforth as his servants or tenants was real money, viz., onefifth of the produce of the land "Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part;" f and Orosius says, that in his time they tory burch sale continued to pay corn in the like proportion, " according to the ordinance of Joseph." J With the Greeks, previous to the time of Solon, the same description of rent was paid, but not to the same amount: they gave but a sixth of the produce to the owners of the soil. § Among the Romans still less was rendered:"In the ancient state of Rome (says Selden, quoting Appian), the tenants of the empire paid for rent a tenth of their corn."Before the overthrow of Pyrrhus, there was not in Rome any coined silver, nor any gold, as we are informed by Pliny; and even brass re mained unstamped till the reign of Servius Tullius, rough lumps of it passing current by weight, as Timaus tory burch shoes relates. tory burch shoes tory burch shoes " How very general the use of this metal was is proved by the tory burch flats armour of the Servian Legion : and there can be no question that all the better household utensils were of the same material. Thus brass was a thing of daily need, and the masses of it were so easily transformed by fusion, that no loss was incurred by that process."! The pieces of cloth, and of rocksalt used in Abyssinia, and the cocoa of Mexico, with which M. Niebuhr classes the Roman brass, are also examples of real money.The early Britons, when they were visited by Caesar, made use only of real money, which, so far as the metals were concerned, consisted of bars of brass or iron ; and in their free state they never had any other. "