An Essay on Shakespeare's Character of Shylock: Originating in an Examination of the Laws and Customs of Moses, and of the Primitive Christians, with Reference to Enumerations of Population, and the Rate of Interest of Money (Classic Reprint)

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For the former - recourse must be had to various enumerations of population, with the relative lists of burial; and for the latter - to the fluctuations in the value of money, influenced by fiscal regulations affecting the precious metals, and by the laws relating to interest.

Now the earliest enumerations and classifications of population are those recorded in Exodus, xxx. 12, 13, 14; Leviticus, xxvi, 3; Numbers, i.-iv.

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