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I gathered from them a strong idea of what commercial failure means to English merchants utter ruin, present and prospective, and obliterating all the successful past; how little chance they have of ever getting up again; how they feel that they must plod heavily onward under a burden of disgrace poor men and hopeless men and men forever ashamed.
All day long he was able, if he pleased, to entertain himself with the sight of as stirring and striking a marine picture as is anywhere to be witnessed. He could have built himself a house above bridges, where there is no lack of elegance and river beauty of many sorts; but he chose to command a view of the Thames on its commercial side.
Trip to the Transkei Tiyo Soga and his family Trip to the seaside The Fynns Wild dogs Start as a sheep farmer My camp burnt out First commercial adventure Chief Sandile Discovery of diamonds Start for Golconda Traveling companions Manslaughter narrowly escaped Old De Beers Life at the Diamond Fields Scarcity of water First case of diamond stealing I nearly discover Kimberley Mine The rush to Colesberg Kopje My first diamond Its loss and my humiliation Kimberley claims dear at 10 Camp-life in early days I. D. B. Canteen burning.
Manufacturing, agricultural and commercial provinces, filled to the full with industrial life, could not but be injured by being converted into perpetual camps. All was joy in the Netherlands, while at Antwerp, the great commercial metropolis of the provinces and of Europe, the rapture was unbounded.
There is one important principle now fully recognized in the New York laws for game breeding that other states will do well to adopt. It is the fact that certain kinds of wild game can not be bred and reared in captivity on a commercial basis; and this being true, it is clearly against public policy to provide for the sale of any such species.
The strategic value of the islands in case of war and their commercial value at all times are so bound up together that it is impossible to separate them.
Of all the commercial advantages, however, which Scotland has derived from the Union with England, this rise in the price of cattle is, perhaps, the greatest. It has not only raised the value of all highland estates, but it has, perhaps, been the principal cause of the improvement of the low country.
The dinners were good, and the men who ate them were men of solidity and standing in the commercial world; and George was very glad to eat good dinners, and to meet eligible men; but he never again asked his brother for the loan of odd hundreds. He grubbed on, as best he might, in the dingy Gray's-Inn chambers.
"Do you mean actual fighting with weapons?" said I, "or the strikes and lock-outs and starvation of which we have heard?" "Both, both," he said. "As a matter of fact, the history of the terrible period of transition from commercial slavery to freedom may thus be summarised.
Orderly government south of the United States became accordingly essential to the welfare of our outlying possessions, and to the commercial interests of a group of investors. The most important international questions that have arisen in Spanish America related to Venezuela in 1902 and Santo Domingo in 1905.
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