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...ng an inventor and pushing his interests, or of devoting her powers to the financial politics of a Nucingen, and playing a brilliant part in the great... ...er be depended on in great emer- gencies. Thus a loan should be put on the market when the country was tranquil, for at such times it could be placed ... ...rried the daughter of an upholsterer keeping shop under the arcades of the Market. Limited means compelled Monsieur and Madame Saillard at their start... ...he family re- served to itself. For years Elisabeth, the daughter, went to market every morning with her mother, and the two did all the work of the h... ...ish; I saw the birth of the place du Chatelet, the quai aux Fleurs and the Markets.” He and his brother, both born at T royes, were sent in youth to s... ...er managed. At such periods not a dinner took place among bold schemers or financial and political lobby- ists where the opinions of the Bourse and th... ...ht advisable to repress in an underhand way rather than fight openly; with financial as well as labor questions; with the clergy as well as with that ... ...bourdin helped the chambermaid to do the rooms; for the cook went early to market, and the man- servant was cleaning the silver, folding the napkins, ...

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... morning I had come bowling down, and struggling up, hill-country roads; looking back at snowy summits; meeting courteous peasants well to do, driving... ...to men, there would presently arise from both sides of the Atlantic so vo- ciferous an invocation of the sweet little cherub who sits calculating alof... ...e of music. Of a sudden, mist and rain would clear away, and I would come down into picturesque little towns with gleaming spires and odd towers; and ... ...s well as of breath, but he only glances up, as having an idea that somebody has said Amen in a wrong place, and continues his steady jog-trot, like a... ... eruption—a something in the nature of mange, perhaps. From this Covent-garden win- dow of mine I noticed a country dog, only the other day, who had c... ...they liked; couldn’t they?’ ‘Say they could.’ ‘Toll ‘em. If they don’t come through, it’s their look out. Anyways,—Toll ‘em!’ Finding it was as imposs...

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...e man with the short cloak, who spends his life in carrying soup round the markets and other places where there are starving folks. Popinot was fortun... ...a Chinaman, I am a French gentleman. If you entertain any doubts as to the financial side of this undertaking, I can prove to you that at this moment ...

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... palate is deceived. So Sancerre finds in the wineshops of Paris the quick market indispensable for liquor that will not keep for more than seven or e... ...r- self reduced to unconfessed penuriousness till 1835. This sketch of the financial policy of the first Baron de la Baudraye explains the man complet... ...ushing into the lowest depths of the social theatre. “And this is only the financial side. Now, consider the po- litical position. We are struggling i... ...You and Cardot will still be friends. He is to be a director in an immense financial concern, and he may be of use to you.—So you have been waked from... ... a half per cent in the funds, buying at eighty francs, at the time of the financial crisis brought about by the Ministry of the First of March, as it...

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...dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools. In Utopia, a great m... ...te possible thing—would result in a sort of jail delivery of debtors and a financial earthquake. It has been suggested by an ingenious thinker that it... ... anticipated, but then, though its immediate result in glutting the labour market is similar, its final consequences are entirely different from those... ...s tent, therefore, to refuse recognition in the marriage con- tract to any financial obligation between husband and wife, or any settlements qualifyin...

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...derick admitted it with bitterness, and then told how much—measured simply financially—it had cost him. His luck had changed; the tables had ceased to... ...ad discovered one in the wilderness, I would have brought him out into the market-place to see how he would behave. It would be excessively amusing. Y... ...our, and I can assure you that it has sustained me in many embarrassments. Financial, some of them; I don’t mind confessing it! I have raised money on...

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...y; he came to Limoges to be a porter, found a place as an office- boy in a financial house, and there, like many other finan- ciers, he made his way b... ... now understand the reasons that led a man who had become the pivot of the financial machine of Limoges to repulse the various propositions of marriag... ...n, observing that his wife no longer used her horses, and find- ing a good market for them, sold them. He also sold the carriages, sent away the coach... ... broken pots. As for old Pingret, who often sold vegetables himself in the market, lived on bread and onions, never spent more than three hun- dred fr... ...“When is Tascheron to be executed?” asked the bishop. “To-morrow, which is market-day”; replied Monsieur de Grancour. “Messieurs,” exclaimed the bisho... ...poor folk as though a desert lay between them, with no means of reaching a market for their products (if they produced anything), close to an unexplor... ...sts were not tenfold more astute than the police. The next day, this being market-day, Jean-Francois Tascheron was led to execution in a manner to sat...

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...eering from the Bar- nacle fry), that within the short compass of the last financial half-year, this much-maligned Department (Cheers) had writ- ten a... ...t-cause- ways, no railroad on the opposite bank, no hanging bridge or fish-market near at hand, no traffic on the nearest bridge of stone, nothing mov... ...l. She seemed to think that her distinguished nephew had gone into a slave-market and purchased a wife. It would probably have come, sooner or later, ... ...said Mr Flintwinch. ‘Hah! you have brought your pigs to a very indifferent market, Arthur.’ If Arthur had patience, Rigaud had not. He took his little... ...yfulness, by the two lapels of his coat, and cried: ‘To the Devil with the Market, to the Devil with the Pigs, and to the Devil with the Pig-Driver! N... ...scraping his chin, and looking about with caustic disparagement of the Pig-Market, nodded to Arthur, and followed. Mr Pancks, still penitent and depre...

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... set some hundreds of thousands of francs moving every three months in the markets of Paris, Bor- deaux, and Angouleme. Now it so fell out that that v... ...h the bank (please note that expression), and trans- ferred from the money market in Paris to the financial world of Angouleme, if that bill is protes... ... that expression), and trans- ferred from the money market in Paris to the financial world of Angouleme, if that bill is protested, then the bankers i... ...pears un- der the humble title of “charges,” representing a premium on the financial genius and skill with which the capitalist puts his money out to ... ... of the ex-consul-general, under the pretext of putting Mlle. de la Haye’s financial position before that gentleman. 79 Balzac “I have the man for Fr... ...out holly stick, and went to the Rue d’Enfer to take a place in the little market van, which took him as far as Longjumeau for half a franc. He was go... ...n the Paris road, somewhere beyond Marsac. Some country folk, coming in to market, had noticed his fine clothes. Kolb, there- fore, had set out on hor...

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... embody a national or racial Kultur, or fall into the grip of any group of financial enterprises. They will be more comprehensive, less roman- tic, an... ...s and of her landed proprietors. She has not even looked yet at the German financial expedients of a year ago. She moves reluctantly, but surely, towa... ...R has become a war of exhaustion. One hears a great deal of the idea that “financial collapse” may bring it to an end. A number of people seem to be c... ...tcy destroys no concrete thing; it merely writes off a debt; it destroys a financial but not an economic reality. It is, in itself, a mental, not a ph... ... uses. There will be British assignats or greenbacks. It will seem to many financial sentimentalists almost as though Great Britain were hauling down ... ...ers, advertisers, political parties, and the like. Ger- many came into the market rather noisily, and great papers do to a large extent live in glass ... ...e saved them, but the unnecessarily enhanced price that the chances of the market enabled the owners to exact.” And another bright instance of the val... ...t public services, so far as law and theory go, will be as entirely in the market as railway tickets at a station unless we make some intelligent prev...

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... pulled through. It is no use to throw a good thing away merely because the market isn’t ripe yet. Now Sir Kay arose and began to fire up on his hist... ...n a good deal for license to hurry it up and use it now when there was a big market for it. It seemed a great pity to have it wasted so, and come lagg... ...didn’t equal it, quite. For it stands to rea son that as Joseph’s splendid financial ingenuities advantaged nobody but the king, the general public... ...n 48 making up to me, because I was a stranger and he liked to have a fresh market for his jokes, the most of them having reached that stage of wear... ...asure to emphasize my appreciation and sincere thankfulness with a good big financial lift where the money would do so much more good than it would ... ... suddenly rich — for about a day, maybe a week; then some body corners the market on you, and down goes your bucket shop; ain’t that so, Sandy?” “... ...ll in the land did marvel.” “How odd to find that even this industry has its financial panics, and at times sees its assignats and greenbacks lan gui... ... so I stocked the business and unloaded, taking Sir Bors de Ganis into camp financially along with certain of his friends; for the works stopped with... ...look satisfied, and also a shade put out; but he had to respect a man of my financial strength, and so he didn’t give me any lip, but I noticed he to...

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...eventh year of the nineteenth century, perhaps by reason of the prodigious financial development brought about by the 20 Cousin Pons railway system. ... ...beauty to the theatre, so that the new manager might be strongly supported financially by wealthy admirers of feminine charms revealed by the costume ... ...ent went to Berthier. He was anxious to make sure of M. Frederic Brunner’s financial position. 72 Cousin Pons Berthier, forewarned by Mme. de Marvill... ...ere is a farm and pasture land worth twelve hundred thousand francs in the market at this moment,” remarked the President. “If we take up shares in th... ...d people round to get you good Brie cheese; I have gone down as far as the market for 124 Cousin Pons fresh butter for you; I have taken such care of... ...come so many fixed ideas. Mme. Cibot’s masculine beauty, her vivacity, her market-woman’s wit, had all been remarked by the marine store-dealer. He th... ... round out the Marville estate with some grazing land, at that time in the market. We dispossessed ourselves of fine property, as you know, to settle ... ...ake a good bargain! Do you under- stand, master lawyer?—M. Magus rules the market, and if you do not come down off the high horse, if you do not keep ...

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...o grieved about us. I have great hopes, in spite of everything, and on the financial side we’ve no need to trouble. If my novel doesn’ t succeed - to ... ...n this one now, when it recalled to her those awful moments. In T olkutchy Market one could buy a good, plain dress very cheaply . Unfortunately at th... ...ace where I had hopes of getting some. It was fortunately not far from the market. I took my hat. Elena watched me intently as though expecting someth... ...hen it came to the last neces- sity. Having got the money I set off to the market. There I soon found an old woman I knew who sold old clothes of all ... ... make soup. I used to make it for mother when she was ill. I used to go to market too.” “See, Elena, just see how proud you are,” I said, going up to ... ...thing to eat out of pity . Grandfather said nothing, but he took me to the market and bought me some shoes and told me to put them on at once, and the...

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...e aristocracy in the French and British ancient regimes. Putting aside the somewhat artificial and dubious distinction between the "real" and the financial economy, r and g are apples and oranges and cannot be compared. Economic growth (g) is not the return on the real economy in the same way that r is the return on capital and its assets. R is intended to compensate f...