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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Choose a piece out of those big ones and give it to him, and have done," he said. "We don't go in for buying and selling, so what's the use of minding such trifles!" She Yueeh, upon hearing this, dropped the steelyard, and selected a piece, which she weighed in her hand. "This piece," she smiled, "must, I fancy, be a tael. But it would be better to let him have a little more.
Moore, and other places, called at about small businesses, and so at night home to my office and then to supper and to bed. 26th. Up and drinking a draft of wormewood wine with Sir W. Batten at the Steelyard, he and I by water to the Parliament-house: he went in, and I walked up and down the Hall.
Amalgamation with the Hanseatic League, and the necessities and gratitude of more than one king of England but especially of Edward IV. had made of the Steelyard a company such as only the East India Company of later centuries may be compared to.
To this church, therefore, came the 'prentices of the watermen every Sunday. The Great Fire carried it away, with Steelyard, cloister, church, Waterman's Hall, Cold Harbour House, and everything. Then Wren, as I said, took a pencil and ruler one evening, and showed how a square box could be constructed on the site. Now, let no man judge by externals.
Somehow he contrives to look superior, as if he was conscious of the fact and proud of it; he cannot smile, or nod, or wink, but he can look superior. One more church and one more scene, and I have done. There is a church on the south side of Thames Street, close to the site of the Steelyard i.e., almost under the railway arches which lead to Cannon Street. It is not very much to look at.
Intermingled with dissertations on abstract causes and the hidden forces of Nature are to be found descriptions of taps and pumps and syphons, and of the water-screw of Archimedes, the re-invention of which caused poor Galeazzo Rosso, Fazio's blacksmith friend, to go mad for joy. There are diagrams of furnaces, of machinery for raising sunken ships, and of the common steelyard.
His fortune had made him a portrait painter, but he was fully equal to other branches of art, as shown by his 'Meier Madonna, and still more by the designs which have been preserved of his famous allegory of 'the Triumphs of Riches and Poverty, painted for the hall of the Easterling Steelyard, the quarters of the merchants of Allemagne, then traders in London.
This bit of detail enables the eye to penetrate the heavy shadow, and is a good example of the value of the small weight on the long arm of the steelyard, which balances its opposing heavy weight.
At every corner and in every side street, men sold it out of huge baskets, by the five, and ten, and twenty pounds, weighing it out with the ancient steelyard balance. Every balcony was lined with long troughs of it, constantly replenished by the house servants; every carriage and car had a full supply.
"Merciful Heaven!" shrieked Isaac, feigning consternation at the bare suggestion. The Jew still spluttered, and moaned, and hesitated. "Well, then," said Servadac, "if you do not like to lend us your steelyard, do you object to sell it to us?" Isaac fairly shrieked aloud. "God of Israel!" he ejaculated, "sell my steelyard?
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