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... given to the person making the payment , the other , the counter tally , was kept at the bank as a stub ! History tells us that bankers were wont to de- posit their money for safe - keeping in the Tower of London ; but Charles I broke ...
... given to the person making the payment , the other , the counter tally , was kept at the bank as a stub ! History tells us that bankers were wont to de- posit their money for safe - keeping in the Tower of London ; but Charles I broke ...
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... given a better definition than this - from the essay on Banks ? - " A bank is only a great stock of money put to- gether , to be employed by some of the subscrib- ers in the name of the rest , for the benefit of the whole . " The story ...
... given a better definition than this - from the essay on Banks ? - " A bank is only a great stock of money put to- gether , to be employed by some of the subscrib- ers in the name of the rest , for the benefit of the whole . " The story ...
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... remedy this inconveniency , a bank was set up where the mon- ey might be pledged , and credit given to the val- ue , which past in payments , and facilitate trade . Then follows an historical sketch of the Bank of Amsterdam 3 33.
... remedy this inconveniency , a bank was set up where the mon- ey might be pledged , and credit given to the val- ue , which past in payments , and facilitate trade . Then follows an historical sketch of the Bank of Amsterdam 3 33.
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... given quantity of capital and labor . It often and indeed com- monly happens that before the inferior lands are cultivated , capital can be employed more productively on those lands which are al- ready in cultivation . In such case ...
... given quantity of capital and labor . It often and indeed com- monly happens that before the inferior lands are cultivated , capital can be employed more productively on those lands which are al- ready in cultivation . In such case ...
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... given a liberal education and in due time became an attorney . At the age of forty - six , to save two friends from financial disaster , he yielded to solicitation and became a partner and the general manager of the banking house of J ...
... given a liberal education and in due time became an attorney . At the age of forty - six , to save two friends from financial disaster , he yielded to solicitation and became a partner and the general manager of the banking house of J ...
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Page 75 - Hail, MEMORY, hail ! in thy exhaustless mine From age to age unnumbered treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own.
Page 85 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike — till the last armed foe expires ; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sire«, God, and your native land...
Page 111 - I WAITED for the train at Coventry ; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires ; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this : — Not only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the past; not only we, that prate Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well And loathed to see them...
Page 78 - CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day.
Page 85 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke — to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
Page 76 - Mid many a tale told of his boyish days, The nurse shall cry, of all her ills beguiled, " 'Twas on these knees he sat so oft and smiled.
Page 43 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Page 83 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 78 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 21 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.