Sketches from the Diary of a Commercial TravellerJ. Masters, 1847 - 264 páginas |
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ability able accustomed acquainted ALDERSGATE STREET amongst amusement anxious appearance arro associates bearing biped boots carpet bags cation character cheerful cial comfort commercial body commercial room commercial travellers compelled conduct consequently contempt conversation conveyance counting-house creature crotchets customers daily Deadlands delight deportment depraved desirable dining dinner duties employers enable endeavour enjoy equally escutcheon evil exalted exercise exhibit feeling friends frivolous give hand happy heart honourable horse hour inclination indulgence interro JOSEPH MASTERS journey latitudinarian laugh listen manner ment mercial mind ness never o'clock object occasionally occupation offensive once opportunity ordinary party peculiar play pleasure PONTIUS PILATE portmanteau position possession present quadruped quiet racter railway regular render requisite respect retired ribaldry road self-importance society spected strangers superior things tion to-day tolerable town town by town tricities trifling usual utter wine
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Página 97 - certainty is the only thing bargained for. Trade and speculation might have realized greater results; trade and speculation might have realized ruin ! The man who is dependent upon his daily exertions for the support of his family, must feel that the comfort of his own family is dependent for its continuance upon his continued existence. Existence
Página 139 - objects for the hand of Scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at.
Página 4 - A commercial man who discharges his duty conscientiously has, indeed, little time for aught but business ; and although a playfulness of disposition may be produced by his bustling, healthy occupation, and an external appearance of cheerfulness may characterize his proceedings, he will not unfrequently, while bearing a smile on his brow, have corroding cares within.
Página 92 - which for the time being he has entertained, to the no small amusement and gratification of those by whom he might happen to be surrounded. He is always humorous, never common-place ; he delights in a hearty but not practical joke ; and usually, to enliven the long winter evenings, he produces a social feeling by
Página 177 - They eats, they drinks, they sleeps, they never works ! happy beggars ! I carries all their samples, posts all their letters, and does all their banking business. Happy beggars ! they never works
Página 21 - for the first, and probably for the last time in his life,
Página 238 - coat—and alderman-like bearing, still animated voice, and joyous hearty inclination, have won from the world in which he moves laurels that all may envy. Still retaining no small portion of the fire of his youth, without descending to frivolity or trifling, all his words have weight, and his arguments are clear, definite, and convincing. Yet,
Página 198 - career; but can, on the other hand, enumerate a host of those who are proud of his friendship—avowing myself one of the number. May I meet him again, and often! for I am persuaded that every time I may be so favoured, I shall make an agreeable addition to my general stock of " useful knowledge.
Página 50 - waiting to be asked for, all the little additions to a repast, which although not costly are not the less acceptable, and from the spirit in which they are provided are always certain of a proper appreciation—is very grateful. I have often wondered how men can at times so far forget themselves as to give
Página 224 - the markets, of which they arrogantly boast, form, from the perpetual practice of their cunning and supposed superior knowledge, drawbacks rather than advances to their prosperity. At those markets, even, they are attended by the evils which their supercilious, narrow-minded bearing and self-sufficiency deserve. Nay, the very repetition of their visits (and they brag of