 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 266 pàgines
...visions, and set them maddening after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation ; bubble rises on bubble ; every one...enchantment. It elevates the merchant into a kind of knight-errant, or rather a commercial Quixote. The slow but sure gains of snug percentage become despicable... | |
 | Samuel Mordecai - 1860 - 368 pàgines
...visions and set them, crazed after shadows. The example of one stimulates another; speculation rises on speculation — bubble rises on bubble — every...magnitude of the inflation he has contributed to produce." This is a true picture of the state of things in Richmond about the years 1816-17. Real estate in and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1863 - 396 pàgines
...visions, and set them maddening after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation; bubble rises on bubble; every one...enchantment. It elevates the merchant into a kind of knight-errant, or rather a commercial Quixote. The slow but sure gains of snug percentage become despicable... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pàgines
...visions, and set them maddening after shadows. The example of one stimulates another; speculation rises on speculation; bubble rises on bubble; every one...Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 398 pàgines
...visions, and set them maddening after shadows. The example of one stimulates another .; speculation rises on speculation; bubble rises on bubble; every one...enchantment. It elevates the merchant into a kind of knight-errant, or rather a commercial Quixote. The slow but sure gains of snug percentage become despicable... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 450 pàgines
...visions, and set them maddening after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation ; bubble rises on bubble ; every one...enchantment. It elevates the merchant into a kind of knight-errant, or rather a commercial Quixote. The slow but sure gains of snug percentage become despicable... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 480 pàgines
...visions, and set them maddening after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation ; bubble rises on bubble ; every one...produce. Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts =ontempt upon all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magiciau, and the exchange a region... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 504 pàgines
...visions, and set them maddening after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation ; bubble rises on bubble ; every one...produce. Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts sontempt upon all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 488 pàgines
...visions, and set them maddening after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation ; bubble rises on bubble ; every one...enchantment. It elevates the merchant into a kind of knighterrant, or rather a commercial Quixote. The slow but sure gains of snug percentage become despicable... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 714 pàgines
...visions, and set them madding after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation ; bubble rises on bubble ; every one...romance of trade, and casts contempt upon all its sober realitiçs. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment. It elevates... | |
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... after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation ; bubble rises on bubble ; every one helps with his breath to swell the windy superstructure, and admires and wonders at the magnitude of the inflation he has... 
