Chances of Success: Episodes and Observations in the Life of a Busy ManTrade supplied by the American News Company, 1893 - 353 páginas |
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Chances of Success: Episodes and Observations in the Life of a Busy Man Erastus Wiman Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
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acre's product acres advantage American amount Britain British Buffalo Bill Canada Canadian capital cent Chances of Success Cherokee Outlet combination commerce competition condition Congress continent corn cost debt demand economic effort element employment enormous equal Erastus Wiman existence expense exports extent fact farm farmer force foreign Free Ports future Goldwin Smith greater growth Hence House immigration important income increase industry interest labor lady land less lines living Ludlow Street Jail manufactures ment million dollars Montreal nation occupied opportunity paid Parliament of Canada population possession possible practically profit prosperity question Railroad rapidity realize result revenue seemed Senator shape Sidney Dillon Starin Staten Island Staten Island Railway supply taxation telegraph things thousand tion to-day trade United Vanderbilt family vast wealth Western Union wheat whole writer York young youth
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Página 322 - Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 321 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 327 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Página 321 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold; that they are at the antipodes,- and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland...
Página 4 - ... that this equipment having at last been made ready, the work of using it has, for the first time in our day and generation, fairly begun ; and also that every community under prior or existing conditions of use and consumption, is becoming saturated, as it were, with its results.
Página 305 - Empire so long ascribed in ignorance to slavery, heathenism, and moral corruption was in reality brought about by a decline in the silver and gold mines of Spain and Greece. . . . And as if Providence had intended to reveal in the clearest manner the influence of this mighty agent on human affairs, the resurrection of mankind from the ruin which those causes had produced was owing to a directly opposite set of agencies being put in operation.
Página 184 - I am sure you would not wish that." *I am sure I should wish that : I wish them to give mind, soul, heart, and body to business, — that is the way to be happy. It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
Página 277 - ancient mariner', for by this time he will be quite entitled to such an appellation, knowing that water cannot run up hill, feels certain his aquatic experiences are concluded. He was never more mistaken. We immediately launch him upon the...
Página 304 - The two greatest events that have occurred in the history of mankind have been directly brought about by a successive contraction and expansion of the circulating medium of society. The fall of the Roman Empire...
Página 92 - ... there is wisdom, — you will bitterly repent when it is too late. The habits of study acquired at Universities are of the highest importance in after-life. At the season when you are young in years, the whole mind is, as it were, fluid, and is capable of forming itself into any shape that the owner of the mind pleases to allow it, or constrain it, to form itself into.