Although I would not advise anybody to follow our example, yet it is a fact that we got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

This was hardly necessary in the case of capital, because the possibilities of foreign investment are very numerous and easy: the mobility of capital is thus sufficiently strong (once again it is only marginal adjustment that is necessary) to establish over at least a large part of the world something near to a uniform rate of interest.

The money had been paid to Ben, and was deposited in four different savings banks, till he could decide on a better investment.

But this great object need not interfere with others of less importance, and therefore Mr. P. will not deny that, after having exhibited to his friends and the sporting fraternity in general, his little investment in fancy horseflesh, he made up a very satisfactory betting-book.

By the judicious investment of a dollar in this timely purchase, the worthy woman thus secured for herself a provision for old age, and a security, which she probably appreciates yet more highly, for decent burial when she dies.

[Footnote 1: I was led to study this subject in looking to see what had become of my first permanent investment, a small venture, made about thirty-five years ago, in the "Sawyer and Gwynne static pressure engine."

Extremes meet, and these classes include both those living on passive investments, and those dependent on their daily labor for a livelihood.

But this proved a very unfortunate investment.

Nor has this life any direct relation to material usefulness and the productive investment of capital.

Now can't you think of some friend who could assist you?" "Could you lend me fifteen hundred pounds for a rather speculative investment?"

Suppose, further, 6 per cent to be at the time a fair return on a perfectly secure investment.

Germany loses everything with the exception of her territory: colonies, possessions, rights, commercial investments, etc.

That the attorneys and managers have deliberately endeavoured to raise a panic, whereby property might be depreciated to their own advantage; showing clearly thereby, that they consider Jamaica property, even with the laborers, irreclaimably free, a desirable investment.

And, indeed, by the time of the Gracchi all these joint-stock companies had become the one favourite investment in which every one who had any capital, however small, placed it without hesitation.

Franklin, after twenty years of assiduous business and fortunate investments, was able to retire on an income of about four thousand dollars a year, which in those times was a comfortable independence anywhere.

It is a fine piece of romance; does it proffer a sufficient security upon the proffered investment of the Lord's money?

If the combination of these factors is not adequate as an explanation, there remain the spirit of inflation characteristic of a new country and the common desire for tangible investments of a popularly sanctioned sort.

The ships from England, with the merchandise and money for the yearly investment, had arrived, and joined in the expedition.

They had, between them, considerable money, but they realized they could not enter a field that required such an enormous investment as film making.

There are only two of them,mother and daughter,and on account of some sort of unwise investment they are getting into a pretty bad way.

But after many vicissitudes and failures he returned to Chazy County to marry Ethel Thompson, his boyhood sweetheart, and to find that one of his father's apparently foolish investments had made him rich.

It took three weeks of constant doctoring, investment in Kendall's Spavin Cure, and consultation with an expensive veterinary surgeon, to get the whilom race horse into a condition to slowly walk to market.

Whenever a physician came in, as he was sometimes called, to look at a valuable investment or to furbish up some piece of damaged goods, she always managed to get near to hear the directions; and she generally was the one to apply them also, for negroes always would steal medicines most scurvily one from the other.

They are necessary further because the rapid growth of population calls for an immediate "capital investment," the payment of which may be, through borrowing, more easily spread over a series of years (e.g., in the extension of streets and paving, and in the provision of school houses for the children).

I am now trying to meet some nice gentleman who does business in Wall Street and get him to make a few conservative investments for me.