Undercurrents of Wall-Street: A Romance of BusinessG.P. Putnam, 1862 - 428 páginas |
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... sure process , after a time , acquire a general reputation - good , bad or indifferent -- for which one would . be puzzled to state any reason or cause whatever , but which is true in ninety - nine cases of a hundred . So well settled ...
... sure process , after a time , acquire a general reputation - good , bad or indifferent -- for which one would . be puzzled to state any reason or cause whatever , but which is true in ninety - nine cases of a hundred . So well settled ...
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... sure to be misled . To return : I had no further reason to complain of the " Agency . " They told the truth about me , and drew no disagreeable inferences . Indeed , after a while they began to exaggerate my position , for on the day I ...
... sure to be misled . To return : I had no further reason to complain of the " Agency . " They told the truth about me , and drew no disagreeable inferences . Indeed , after a while they began to exaggerate my position , for on the day I ...
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... sure that , with others , what I narrate of myself will find a sym- pathetic response in their own memories . They will ac- company me as I walked that night slowly homeward through the rain . Fifty years old ; recollections of the past ...
... sure that , with others , what I narrate of myself will find a sym- pathetic response in their own memories . They will ac- company me as I walked that night slowly homeward through the rain . Fifty years old ; recollections of the past ...
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... sure ; and how it torments you ! But why , after all , should it cause you such agony as I see it does ? Remember what you have done already ; and you are young yet , in the very prime of life , and I feel certain it will turn out ...
... sure ; and how it torments you ! But why , after all , should it cause you such agony as I see it does ? Remember what you have done already ; and you are young yet , in the very prime of life , and I feel certain it will turn out ...
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... sure as to our unquestionable ability to go through . Mr. Oilnut received me with an extreme of courtesy- deeply regretted our temporary embarrassment . As to his little affair , he presumed we did not intend to include it in the list ...
... sure as to our unquestionable ability to go through . Mr. Oilnut received me with an extreme of courtesy- deeply regretted our temporary embarrassment . As to his little affair , he presumed we did not intend to include it in the list ...
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Página 393 - The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity ; but a wounded spirit who can bear ? 15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge ; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Página 218 - And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself.
Página 80 - To do to others as I would That they should do to me, Will make me honest, kind, and good, As children ought to be.
Página 129 - All sheep to the number of ten, with their fleeces and the yarn or cloth manufactured from the same...
Página 130 - All necessary wearing apparel, beds, bedsteads and bedding for such person and his family ; arms and accoutrements required by law to be kept by such person ; necessary cooking utensils ; one table ; six chairs ; six knives and forks ; six plates ; six teacups and saucers : one...
Página 261 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 200 - What is the chief end of man ?" By the light he lives and works by, how would he answer it ? Now let us have an introduction to these people with fortunes and habits so different. Put the novelists and romancewriters aside. We do not want any hot-house developments, any big, horrid villains, any sweet, charming bread-andbutter saints. Away with caricatures and exaggerations...
Página 130 - All necessary wearing apparel, beds, bedsteads, and bedding, for such person and his family. Arms and accoutrements, required by law to be kept by such person. Necessary cooking utensils, one table, six chairs, six knives and forks, six plates, six tea-cups and saucers, one sugar-dish, one milk-pot, one tea-pot and six spoons, one crane and its appendages, one pair of andirons and a shovel and tongs...
Página 237 - Give the gentleman a chair, my daughter," said the sick woman, for although I had shaken the snow from my hat and coat, I was still standing. The daughter obeyed, and I sat down. Meanwhile I had glanced about the room and taken a closer look at its inmates. The appearance was that of biting poverty without squalidness or misery. The girl was very handsome and well formed, but exhibited in her demeanor no softness — indeed, little that was feminine. When I sat down, she seated herself at the window...
Página 145 - There is another class equally, nay, more entitled to our sympathies. It is the class who from day to day, and week to week, and month to month...