Random Roaming, and Other Papers
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ISBN13: 9780217541138
Paperback|9780217541138
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. HILL-DIGGING AND MAGIC. Among all my acquaintances above the lower middle class I know no man of forty?except he be a country parson?who has not written a book, or who has not an account at a bank. We all write books, and we all keep a banking book. Yet there was a time when human beings did neither the one nor the other. Also there was a time when books were common, much written, much read, and when bankers were not common. Nevertheless in those days money changed hands?money in lumps with a stamp upon it, money by weight that was the price of lands and cattle and men's lives, and things much more precious than even these. The world had grown quite an old world when Pasion?the Rothschild of Athens?turned over the leaves of his ledgerto find out how Lycon of Heraclea stood in his books. It was a much older one when Julius Caesar persuaded the bankers at Rome to make those heavy advances to him as he was preparing for the pillage of Gaul. But a thousand years after Caesar's time Europe had clean forgotten all about the finance of the earlier ages, and banking, as we understand the word, was a thing unknown. Yet men traded, and bargained, and got gain, and some grew rich, and some grew poor, and some were thriftless and some were grasping?as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. In process of time the art of money-making advanced again. Great capitalists rose up, fortunes were made, estates changed hands. The great men doubtless had their own methods of managing their money matters. The Jews, the Carausini (who bought out the Jews), and other such financiers, made their accounts and negotiated loans with kings and potentates, and throve surprisingly as a rule, though by no means invariably. That was all very well for the big men embarked in important spe...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217541138 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217541135 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 114 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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