| 单词 | stockjobber |
| 例句 | Investors in the 1720s relied on stockjobbers, rumours and friends and relatives for their financial advice. Boom or bust: What culture tells us about money 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Great parcels of stockjobbers stay at Brighton with the women and children. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z You may also become a stockjobber, possibly because a stockjobber's earnings cannot by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as the fruit of honest toil. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z He was a stockjobber--ostensibly in the Erie market. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z Of all the sons of men, I believe the stockjobbers are the greatest liars. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. 2011-11-03T02:00:18.037Z Only a hypocrite–that stockjobber of virtue–is not, after praying, more gentle and complacent. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z If you can find prodigals, who have ruined their fortunes, broken gamesters or stockjobbers, these may do well as governors; for they will probably be rapacious, and provoke the people by their extortions. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z For all she knew, the criminal's capital offence might have been an innocent murder—a miscarriage in the redistribution of some property—a too zealous garrotting of some fat old stockjobber. When Ghost Meets Ghost The Rads have got hold of a stockjobber who is good for a thousand, and Maltman says they cannot fight him with less than that. Name and Fame A Novel Cobbett, who saw them rise, reviled the stockjobbers who were buying out the old families. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. No stockjobber on 'Change could go about his exciting work with more animating eagerness. The Bertrams Too many of these stockjobbers and kingjobbers have come into our legislature—or rather, too many of our legislature have become stockjobbers and kingjobbers. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. It represented the device by which the hard-earned wages of the labourer were being somehow conjured away into the pockets of Jews and stockjobbers. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill A great part of the current coin in the kingdom was locked up in the houses or banks of a few stockjobbers and speculators. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Sometimes it is of noble birth; and sometimes the spawn of a stockjobber. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Wasn't it a stockjobber who thought Botticelli was a cheese? Austin and His Friends Item, I forbid all n——s and persons of q——ty to watch bargains near and about the Exchange, to the diminution and wrong of the said stockjobbers. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 There would be plenty for all if the borough-mongers and stockjobbers could be annihilated, taxes abolished, and the debt repudiated. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It is droll to look back upon the movement which led public opinion to prefer a stockjobber to a gallant soldier. Rides on Railways My next lover was Fungoso, the son of a stockjobber, whose visits my friends, by the importunity of persuasion, prevailed upon me to allow. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II The more acute stockjobbers imagined justly that prices could not continue to rise for ever. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 "You never heard such bellowing about the town of the state of the nation, especially among the sharpers, sellers of bearskins—i.e. stockjobbers, &c." The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 If any spirit ever walks it must be that of the stockjobber, for how can such a one rest in its grave without knowing what shares are doing? The Three Clerks Lately indeed we heard that the King of Spain had abdicated; but I believe it was some stockjobber that had deposed him. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 After he had enjoyed the triumph of condolence, he turned to a wealthy stockjobber, and left me exposed to the scorn of those who had lately courted my notice, and solicited my interest. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II The stockjobbers, ever on the alert for a new speculation, dealt largely in tulips, making use of all the means they so well knew how to employ, to cause fluctuations in prices. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 He hated dissenters and stockjobbers, the excise and the army, septennial parliaments, and continental connections. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 These were Prior, the prosperous City coffee importer, and Lang, the stockjobber, well known in his own circle as an amateur prestidigitator. A Voyage to Arcturus This scandalous bargain was duly signed and sealed, the stockjobber furthermore agreeing to settle upon his daughter, on the marriage-day, a fortune of several millions. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 It seemed at that time as if the whole nation had turned stockjobbers. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 |
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