Stories of Banks and BankersMacmillan, 1865 - 200 σελίδες |
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... scrip , turned pale for envy and anger , and tried , as best they could , to defame the nouveaux riches . Among these envied parvenus was Sir Robert Clayton , director of the Bank of England , whose villa was the boast of the Surrey ...
... scrip , turned pale for envy and anger , and tried , as best they could , to defame the nouveaux riches . Among these envied parvenus was Sir Robert Clayton , director of the Bank of England , whose villa was the boast of the Surrey ...
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... scrip . Always cool - headed and close - fisted , he was the very man to profit by the South Sea fever . When the tide was gradually rising , he at once began to see to what a deluge it would lead , and , slowly and carefully purchasing ...
... scrip . Always cool - headed and close - fisted , he was the very man to profit by the South Sea fever . When the tide was gradually rising , he at once began to see to what a deluge it would lead , and , slowly and carefully purchasing ...
Σελίδα 68
... scrip . How to take care of this money and make it grow in his hands , by ever - returning interest , was what Meyer Anselm understood to perfec- tion . In the hard piping times of war , money was worth twelve and even twenty per cent ...
... scrip . How to take care of this money and make it grow in his hands , by ever - returning interest , was what Meyer Anselm understood to perfec- tion . In the hard piping times of war , money was worth twelve and even twenty per cent ...
Σελίδα 76
... scrip of paper that was to be had , and left not off buying till the evening of the following day . It was only in the after- noon of the 21st of June , nearly two days after the arrival of Nathan in England , that the news of the great ...
... scrip of paper that was to be had , and left not off buying till the evening of the following day . It was only in the after- noon of the 21st of June , nearly two days after the arrival of Nathan in England , that the news of the great ...
Σελίδα 88
... scrip , and foreigners have made the greatest fortunes in this traffic . Foreigners , in fact , have been the pillars of the Stock Exchange . With very few exceptions , all those among us who ever amassed great wealth by dealing in ...
... scrip , and foreigners have made the greatest fortunes in this traffic . Foreigners , in fact , have been the pillars of the Stock Exchange . With very few exceptions , all those among us who ever amassed great wealth by dealing in ...
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Alexander Fordyce Bank of England Banking Company banking establishments banking house bill-brokers bills Black Monday BOOK brothers Cambridge career cent century Christian Church clerk cloth commenced country bankers Coutts Coutts and Co David Barclay deposits directors early English Extra fcap favour firm fortune founder Francis Baring friends funds GEORGE Gideon Goldsmid goldsmiths Government hands Henry Fauntleroy honours house of Rothschild interest James Jew-lane John joint-stock banks King land latter loan Lombard Street London and Westminster Lord lottery Loyd M.A. Crown 8vo M.A. Fcap M.A. Second Edition ment merchants Messrs Meyer Anselm millions sterling monopoly Nathan Rothschild notes Overend paper Parliament partners Peter Thellusson Poems private banks profitable Royal ruin Sampson Sampson Gideon Scotch Scotland SERMONS PREACHED shareholders shrewd Smith South Sea Company speculations Third Edition Thomas tion trade transactions TREATISE VAUGHAN vols wealth Westminster Bank whole William Paterson
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