The Arena, Volume 18Arena Publishing Company, 1897 |
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... United States government frequently issued bonds , and the prices of these bonds fluctuated sufficiently to afford tempting chances of profits . State bonds also were sold in Wall Street in larger amounts than to - day . About the year ...
... United States government frequently issued bonds , and the prices of these bonds fluctuated sufficiently to afford tempting chances of profits . State bonds also were sold in Wall Street in larger amounts than to - day . About the year ...
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... United States and the colossus of Europe and Asia , the former nation has an immense start as to time , and a still greater advantage in the character of its population . And in addition to these we have the undoubted and constantly ...
... United States and the colossus of Europe and Asia , the former nation has an immense start as to time , and a still greater advantage in the character of its population . And in addition to these we have the undoubted and constantly ...
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... United States . The story of the process by which this prodigious result has been reached is narrated by Mr. Clews in the manner of one who gives an account of the formation of a temperance society or a Sunday school ! In the whole ...
... United States . The story of the process by which this prodigious result has been reached is narrated by Mr. Clews in the manner of one who gives an account of the formation of a temperance society or a Sunday school ! In the whole ...
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... United States were aforetime " held locally , " and that they were transferred " more frequently by executors than by brokers on the stock exchange " — as though that were an evil . Then " there were but few opportunities for dealing in ...
... United States were aforetime " held locally , " and that they were transferred " more frequently by executors than by brokers on the stock exchange " — as though that were an evil . Then " there were but few opportunities for dealing in ...
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... United States is the basis , or central fact , in the whole system of bonds and stocks . Wall Street knows that the dollar is the central fact in the bond . It knows that if the bond can be made everlasting and the dollar can be ...
... United States is the basis , or central fact , in the whole system of bonds and stocks . Wall Street knows that the dollar is the central fact in the bond . It knows that if the bond can be made everlasting and the dollar can be ...
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Page 292 - gainst my fury Do I take part. The rarer action is In virtue, than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.
Page 503 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he...
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Page 480 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 136 - It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men.
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Page 615 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.