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Page xvi
... clerk . The lots of barristers ' clerks vary as widely as the habits of their employers . Some make fortunes for themselves ; others only tea for their masters . Their success in life is not wholly dependent upon their own exertions ...
... clerk . The lots of barristers ' clerks vary as widely as the habits of their employers . Some make fortunes for themselves ; others only tea for their masters . Their success in life is not wholly dependent upon their own exertions ...
Page xvii
... clerk , properly so called . He collected his master's dividends -a more gentlemanlike occupation than dunning attornies for fees , marked but not paid . Salt was a man of ample fortune and of kind heart . He is immortalised in the ...
... clerk , properly so called . He collected his master's dividends -a more gentlemanlike occupation than dunning attornies for fees , marked but not paid . Salt was a man of ample fortune and of kind heart . He is immortalised in the ...
Page xviii
... clerk in the mercantile rather than the ecclesiastical sense of the term . He has thus become the patron saint , the inspir- ing example , of those whom fate , perhaps not so unkind as she seems , has condemned to know " the irksome ...
... clerk in the mercantile rather than the ecclesiastical sense of the term . He has thus become the patron saint , the inspir- ing example , of those whom fate , perhaps not so unkind as she seems , has condemned to know " the irksome ...
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... clerks ; the still more sacred interiors of court and committee rooms , with venerable faces of beadles , door - keepers - directors seated in form on solemn days ( to proclaim a dead dividend , ) at long worm - eaten tables , that have ...
... clerks ; the still more sacred interiors of court and committee rooms , with venerable faces of beadles , door - keepers - directors seated in form on solemn days ( to proclaim a dead dividend , ) at long worm - eaten tables , that have ...
Page 3
... clerks of the present day could lift from their enshrining shelves - with their old fantastic flourishes , and decorative rubric interlacings - their sums in triple columniations , set down with formal superfluity of cyphers - with ...
... clerks of the present day could lift from their enshrining shelves - with their old fantastic flourishes , and decorative rubric interlacings - their sums in triple columniations , set down with formal superfluity of cyphers - with ...
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