Journal of the Canadian Bankers' Association, Volumen12Canadian Bankers' Association., 1905 |
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acceptance advance agent American amount ancient Greece average Bank of Montreal Bank of Upper bankers banking system bill bill of lading borrower branches British Canadian banks capital carriers cent chartered banks circulation commercial commission common carriers consignee contract cost Court currency customers debentures deposits directors discount dollars Dominion notes drafts duty effect England English banks exchange export fact families favour foreign funds Galt gold Government hand held hypothecation important income increase institutions interest investment liability loans London loss matter ment Mexico necessary negotiable instruments note issue Nova Scotia obtained paid pany paper payment person Phormio pounds sterling practical present profits provincial notes question railway reason receipts received reserve result shipper silver Sir Francis Hincks specie telegraph tion Toronto trade trust companies United Upper Canada
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Página 264 - THE day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonoured, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
Página 294 - Labour' is, if well understood, the Problem of the whole Future, for all who will in future pretend to govern men. But...
Página 263 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Página 293 - The only trades which it seems possible for a jointstock company to carry on successfully, without an exclusive privilege, are those, of which all the operations are capable of being reduced to what is called a routine, or to such an uniformity of method as admits of little or no variation.
Página 305 - Every person capable of discerning right from wrong is responsible for the damage caused by his fault to another, whether by positive act, imprudence, neglect or want of skill.
Página 301 - ... by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars...
Página 35 - This is well to be weighed, that boldness is ever blind ; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences : therefore it is ill in counsel, good in execution ; so that the right use of bold persons is, that they never command in chief, but be seconds and under the direction of others ; for in counsel it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them except they be very great.
Página 322 - ... who shall have power to make a thorough examination into all the affairs of the association, and, in doing so, to examine any of the officers and agents thereof on oath ; and shall make a full and detailed report of the condition of the association to the Comptroller.
Página 35 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Página 303 - It is received, but is to be translated and transmitted through different symbols, by means of electricity, and is peculiarly liable to mistakes. The message cannot be the subject of embezzlement It Is of no Intrinsic value. Its importance cannot be estimated, except by the sender, and often cannot be disclosed by him without danger of defeating his purpose. It may be wholly valueless, If not forwarded immediately; and the measure of damages, for a failure to transmit or deliver it has no relation...