 | Charles Dickens - 1908 - 120 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1908 - 124 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 my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - 1909 - 508 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.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1910 - 570 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... | |
 | Margaret Hill McCarter - 1910 - 514 pages
...shall sound for them and they enter the kingdom of Eternal Peace. 291 CHAPTER XIX A MAN'S BUSINESS Mankind was my business; the common welfare was my...of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business. — DICKENS. EVERY little community has its customs peculiar to itself. With the people of Springvale... | |
 | Howard Allen Bridgman - 1910 - 204 pages
...business, Jacob." To which the ghost replies in words that ought to sink into all our minds, "Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my...water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" OFF DAYS " T TE is a pretty good fellow, but he Al has his off days" was the comment of one of his... | |
 | Howard Allen Bridgman - 1910 - 206 pages
...business, Jacob." To which the ghost replies in words that ought to sink into all our minds, "Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my...of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business ! " t)FF DAYS " TTE is a pretty good fellow, but he .IT. has his off days" was the comment of one of... | |
 | American School Hygiene Association - 1920 - 418 pages
...had been a good business man cried out in anguish, "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." His thought is an axiom in the business world today. Business and service are inseparable. The Chamber... | |
 | M.A.L. Lane - 1911 - 392 pages
...always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered 5 Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again....business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of 10 water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" It held up its chain at arm's length, as if that... | |
 | Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 332 pages
...man ! " " But you were always a good man of business, Jacob." mercy, benevolence, the common welfare, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were...of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business. I am here to warn you that you have yet a chance to escape my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring,... | |
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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,... 
