 My success all turned on one maxim. I said, I can do what another man can, and so I am a match for the man with the patterns, and for all the rest of them! Another advantage I had. I was an off-hand man. I made a bargain at once. When I was settled in...  Rural Repository - Page 1891848Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 918 pages
...one, and I could sell goods cheaper than anybody ; in a short time I made my £20,000 into £60,000. My success all turned on one maxim. I said, I can...the rest of them! Another advantage I had. I was an oif-hand man; I made a bargain at once. When I was settled in London, the East India Company had 800,000... | |
 | Tracts for the people - 1847 - 800 pages
...of one, and I could sell goods cheaper than anybody. In a short time I made my 20,0001. into 60,<XXM My success all turned on one maxim. I said, I can do what another nan can, and so I am a match for the ma: with the patterns, and for all the rest of theml Another advantage... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1848 - 636 pages
...one, and I could sell goods cheaper than anybody. In a short time I made my 20.000/. into 60.000/. My success all turned on one maxim. I said, I can...I was settled in London the East India Company had 800,000 Ibs. of gold to sell. I went to the sale and bought it all. I knew the Duke of Wellington must... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...one, and I could sell goods cheaper than anybody. In a short time I maile my 20.000/. into 60,000/. My success all turned on one maxim. I said, I can...an off-hand man. I made a bargain at once. When I wa-i settled in London the East India Company had 800,000 Ibs. of gold to sell. I went to the sale... | |
 | English essays - 1848 - 748 pages
...anybody. Ill a short time I made my 20,000/. into 60,000/. My success ,«11 turned on one maxim. 1 said, I can do what another man can, and so I am a...man with the patterns, and for all the rest of them 1 Another advantage I had : 1 was an offhand man — I wade a bargain at once. When I was settled in... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1848 - 798 pages
...another man can, and so I am a match for the man with the patterns, and for all the rest of them I Another advantage I had : I was an offhand man —...was settled In London, the East India Company had 800,0001. worth of gold to -•!!. I went to the sale, and bought it all. I knew the Duke of Wellington... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1848 - 628 pages
...one, and I could sell goods cheaper than anybody. In a short time I made my 20,000/. into 60,000/. My success all turned on one maxim. I said, I can...what another man can, and so I am a match for the z 4 man with the patterns, and for all the rest of them ! Another advantage I had. I was an off-hand... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Abolitionists - 1848 - 646 pages
...success all turned on one maxim. I said, I can do what another man can, and so I am a match for the z 4 man with the patterns, and for all the rest of them...Another advantage I had. I was an off-hand man. I made a hargain at once. When I was settled in London, the East India Company had 800,000 Ibs. of gold to sell.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1848 - 794 pages
...goods cheaper than anybody. In a short time I made my £'20,000 into £60,000. My success all turned ou one maxim. I said, I can do what another man can, and so 1 am a match for the man with the patterns, and for all the rest of them ! Another advantage I had.... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 542 pages
...one, and I could sell goods cheaper than any body. In a short time I made my 20,000/. into 60,000/. My success all turned on one maxim. I said, I can...was settled in London, the East India Company had 800,000 Ibs. of gold to sell. I went to the sale, and bought it all. I knew the Duke of Wellington... | |
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