Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 79David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1899 - English literature |
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... appears to be an increasing tendency to resort for the purpose of re - constructing or amalgamating prosperous businesses , or of effecting a reduction or re- arrangement of capital or debentures . And those companies which are abortive ...
... appears to be an increasing tendency to resort for the purpose of re - constructing or amalgamating prosperous businesses , or of effecting a reduction or re- arrangement of capital or debentures . And those companies which are abortive ...
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... appear on the boards of unlimited companies , the extent of the liability would not prevent the public from investing . When once shares have been allotted and liability has been assumed , it is obviously to the interest of shareholders ...
... appear on the boards of unlimited companies , the extent of the liability would not prevent the public from investing . When once shares have been allotted and liability has been assumed , it is obviously to the interest of shareholders ...
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... appears to be no power whatever to go behind the fiction , and require the allottee to pay up the shares in fact . An insolvent vendor can thus hand over a valueless business to a company created by himself for the purpose , and treat ...
... appears to be no power whatever to go behind the fiction , and require the allottee to pay up the shares in fact . An insolvent vendor can thus hand over a valueless business to a company created by himself for the purpose , and treat ...
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... appear to see that it interests themselves , beyond the possibility of educating their labourers or household servants to work more skilfully . In truth the matter is not pressing . Whatever the capacity which Nature bestows upon the ...
... appear to see that it interests themselves , beyond the possibility of educating their labourers or household servants to work more skilfully . In truth the matter is not pressing . Whatever the capacity which Nature bestows upon the ...
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... appear more , their random dessert of hedge - berries , wild apples , and fungus from the door - step . They are ragged and they are filthy , it is true , but they are not particularly thin or pitiable - looking ; their hair , which one ...
... appear more , their random dessert of hedge - berries , wild apples , and fungus from the door - step . They are ragged and they are filthy , it is true , but they are not particularly thin or pitiable - looking ; their hair , which one ...
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Page 8 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 155 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
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Page 131 - He had no desire to make any dramatic entry, but an accident of the sunset ordered it that when he had taken off his helmet to get the evening breeze, the low light should fall across his forehead, and he could not see what was before him; while one waiting at the tent door beheld with new eyes a young man, beautiful as Paris, a god in a halo of golden dust, walking slowly at the head of his flocks, while at his knee ran small naked Cupids.
Page 360 - The King of Great Britain cedes the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, in full right, to his most Christian Majesty, to serve as a shelter to the French fishermen : and his said most Christian Majesty engages not to fortify the said islands ; to erect no buildings upon them, but merely for the convenience of the fishery ; and to keep upon them a guard of fifty men only for the police.
Page 341 - I do further declare that neither hopes, fears, rewards or punishments, shall ever induce me directly or indirectly, to inform on, or give evidence against any member or members of this or similar societies, for any act or expression of theirs, done or made collectively or individually, in or out of this society, in pursuance of the spirit of this obligation.