 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1841 - 778 pagina’s
...within the last few years to have contracted, of speculating beyond their means, of living beyond their income, of spending money before it was acquired,...Extravagant expenditure in houses, in furniture, in entertainments, in equipages, in dress, in servants, in short, in every branch of disbursement, was... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 544 pagina’s
...in the act of accumulating them. Extravagant expenditure in houses, in furniture, in entertainments, in equipages, in dress, in servants, in short, in...system allowed them to import largely from England, and pay in notes or bills at long dates, the evil day could be deferred by one expedient succeeding another.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 530 pagina’s
...in the act of accumulating them. Extravagant expenditure in houses, in furniture, in entertainments, in equipages, in dress, in servants — in short,...every branch of disbursement, was characteristic of the trading classes ; and so long as the credit system allowed them to import largely from England,... | |
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... the habit which all classes seem within the last few years to have contracted, of speculating beyond their means, of living beyond their income, of spending money before it was acquired, and of keeping up the appearance of men who had realized large... 