 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 362 pages
...find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Yet such was I ! Oh, such was I ! " " Business ! " cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again....forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business." Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly.... | |
 | 1903 - 362 pages
...find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Yet such was I ! Oh, such was I ! " " Business ! " cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again....forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business." Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1905 - 446 pages
...space of regret can make amends for one lii opportunity misused ! Yet such was I ! Oh ! such was I !." "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again....Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my Harness; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, «r business. The dealings of my... | |
 | William Patten - 1906 - 444 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...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 flung... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - 1910 - 628 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....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 flung... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1907 - 244 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'slength, as if that were the cause of all its unavailing grief, and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1907 - 232 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....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 flung... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1907 - 258 pages
...amends for one life's opportunities misused ! Yet I was like this man ; I once was like this man I " " Business ! " cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again....welfare was my business ; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive... | |
 | Nora Archibald Smith - 1907 - 156 pages
...common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my 132 bnsiness ! The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business." As women, we have a special duty toward children — our own children, everybody's children, anybody's... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 598 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... | |
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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,... 
