The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 98Atlantic Monthly Company, 1906 |
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Page 110
... bank wrecker , loan shark , and investment swindler , in taking livelihoods take lives . It takes imagination to see that the busi- ness of debauching voters , fixing juries , seducing lawmakers , and corrupting pub- lic servants is ...
... bank wrecker , loan shark , and investment swindler , in taking livelihoods take lives . It takes imagination to see that the busi- ness of debauching voters , fixing juries , seducing lawmakers , and corrupting pub- lic servants is ...
Page 126
... Bank of England was divided into two depart- ments : ( 1 ) for issuing paper money , ( 2 ) for ordinary banking . The department for issuing paper money acquired the reserve of the Bank of England with 14 millions sterling of securities ...
... Bank of England was divided into two depart- ments : ( 1 ) for issuing paper money , ( 2 ) for ordinary banking . The department for issuing paper money acquired the reserve of the Bank of England with 14 millions sterling of securities ...
Page 127
... bank- ing reserve of the Banking Department . It will therefore be found that the notes in circulation , plus the notes held by the Bank , equal the gold in the Issue Depart- ment , plus the issue against securities . Thus in the year ...
... bank- ing reserve of the Banking Department . It will therefore be found that the notes in circulation , plus the notes held by the Bank , equal the gold in the Issue Depart- ment , plus the issue against securities . Thus in the year ...
Page 128
... Bank of France can issue , there is consequently a limit to the elasticity of its currency . Thus , in 1880 the legal limit of the paper money which the Bank of France could issue was 3200 million francs , while the actual amount of ...
... Bank of France can issue , there is consequently a limit to the elasticity of its currency . Thus , in 1880 the legal limit of the paper money which the Bank of France could issue was 3200 million francs , while the actual amount of ...
Page 129
... Banks increased from 3871 in 1900 to 5833 in 1905 , shows that a nation so prosper- ous and extended as the United States of America requires constant extension of the banking and financial machinery . In November , 1905 , National Bank ...
... Banks increased from 3871 in 1900 to 5833 in 1905 , shows that a nation so prosper- ous and extended as the United States of America requires constant extension of the banking and financial machinery . In November , 1905 , National Bank ...
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Page 418 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Page 419 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : Who maketh the clouds his chariot: Who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 425 - Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief: When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Page 751 - Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine.
Page 498 - A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day...
Page 420 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, And as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Page 144 - They say that thou wert, lovely from thy birth, Of glorious parents thou aspiring Child : I wonder not, for One then left this earth Whose life was like a setting planet mild, Which clothed thee in the radiance undefiled Of its departing glory ; still her fame Shines on thee, through the tempests dark and wild Which shake these latter days ; and thou canst claim The shelter, from thy Sire, of an immortal name.
Page 419 - Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness ; And Thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : And the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; The valleys also are covered over with corn ; They shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 419 - LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion : bless the LORD, O my soul. PSALM CIV. "DLESS the LORD, O my soul. O LORD *~* my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty : Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Page 418 - COME, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.