"Principal sum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that stamp; and that the premiums which we would obtain upon them would range from fifty to one hundred per cent., and that the premium itself would be sufficient to construct most of the important works, leaving the principal sum to go into our treasury, and leave the people free from taxation for years ...
— McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4. • Various
... says that on the basis of prices "The national debt, regarded as a principal sum, has increased its weight upon the shoulders of the British taxpayer between 1875 and 1885 by nearly two hundred millions sterling, an amount nearly equal to the Franco-German ...
— If Not Silver, What? • John W. Bookwalter |
