Letters from the South: Written During an Excursion in the Summer of 1816James Eastburn & Company, at the Literary rooms, Broadway, corner of Pine-street. Abraham Paul, printer, 1817 |
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... Plutus , although he shone in gold and precious stones , hid himself in the bowels of the earth ; but now he is seen clothed in ragged bank - notes , taking precedence every where in the city drawing- rooms . There is now no place where ...
... Plutus , although he shone in gold and precious stones , hid himself in the bowels of the earth ; but now he is seen clothed in ragged bank - notes , taking precedence every where in the city drawing- rooms . There is now no place where ...
الصفحة 151
... Plutus is quite a different sort of personage , who , if he had his dues , and came forth in his appro- priate livery , would look very much like a scare- crow in a corn - field , which is generally a man of straw clothed in rags . This ...
... Plutus is quite a different sort of personage , who , if he had his dues , and came forth in his appro- priate livery , would look very much like a scare- crow in a corn - field , which is generally a man of straw clothed in rags . This ...
الصفحة 152
... Plutus is a great improvement on the ancient one , since it is much easier for a man to get in debt to others than to get others in debt to him . To illustrate this , I will simply give you the prominent features of the present ...
... Plutus is a great improvement on the ancient one , since it is much easier for a man to get in debt to others than to get others in debt to him . To illustrate this , I will simply give you the prominent features of the present ...
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