 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1888 - 476 pages
...counting room, reenforced by Marley's ghost confessing, " Mankind was my business; the common welfare was my business; the dealings of my trade were but a drop...water in the comprehensive ocean of my business." Here is the starting point of that reform of the morals of trade, which, however briefly mentioned,... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1892 - 144 pages
...always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. " Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again....welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of rny trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1893 - 240 pages
...faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. " Business ! " cried the Ghost, wringing his hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common...of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! " He held up his chain at arm's length, as if that were the cause of all his unavailing grief, and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1893 - 268 pages
...Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. " Business ! " cried the Ghost, wringing his hauds again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare...of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! " He held up his chain at arm's length, as if that were the cause of all his unavailing grief, and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 486 pages
...always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. " Business ! " cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again....of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business ! " It held up its chain at arm's length, as if that were the cause of all its unavailing grief, and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1895 - 308 pages
...were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again....of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business ! " It held up its chain at arm's length, as if that •were the cause of all its unavailing grief,... | |
 | 1895 - 500 pages
...ventured the conciliatory suggestion that Marley was a good man of business. "Business!" cried the ghost, "Mankind was my business; the common welfare was my...water in the comprehensive ocean of my business !" The moral so sharply pointed by this persuasive message to the living from a spirit in chains of its own... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Directors of City Trusts - 1898 - 460 pages
...ventured the conciliatory suggestion that Marley was a good man of business, the ghost replied, "Business! Mankind was my business; the common welfare was my...water in the comprehensive ocean of my business." The moral so sharply pointed by this persuasive message to the living, from a spirit in chains of its own... | |
 | Girard College - 1898 - 226 pages
...ventured the conciliatory suggestion that Marley was a good man of business, the ghost replied, "Business! Mankind was my business; the common welfare was my...water in the comprehensive ocean of my business." The moral so sharply pointed by this persuasive message to the living, from a spirit in chains of its own... | |
 | 1898 - 348 pages
...were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. "Business! " cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again....forbearance, and benevolence were all my business." Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the specter going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly.... | |
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But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance,... 
