I hope," he continued in a tone of kindly concern, "that you are not a shareholder in the Company."
"I don't exactly know about being a shareholder," the old man said nervously, "but I've certainly something to do with it.
His business talent was marked and before the end of his dramatic career he seems to have been receiving as manager,
shareholder, playwright and actor, a yearly income equivalent to $25,000 in money of the present time.
But as for the proposal made by Levin--to take a part as
shareholder with his laborers in each agricultural undertaking-- at this the bailiff simply expressed a profound despondency, and offered no definite opinion, but began immediately talking of the urgent necessity of carrying the remaining sheaves of rye the next day, and of sending the men out for the second ploughing, so that Levin felt that this was not the time for discussing it.
heart, or a shilling for a pair of chromolithographic pictures or delft figures to place on his mantelboard, suffered greater privation for the sake of possessing a work of art than the great landlord or
shareholder who paid a thousand pounds, which he was too rich to miss, for a portrait that, like Hogarth's Jack Sheppard, was only interesting to students of criminal physiognomy.
Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each
shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
The
shareholders are led on by the allurement of an enormous bounty, for they value these rich shipwrecks at five hundred millions."
I know the man who is appointed to be manager of this hotel when it is opened to the public; and I have such entire confidence in him that I have become one of the
shareholders of the Company.'
And the
shareholders and business interests might as well shut up squawking about how much they've been hurt.
The company consisted of twenty-three
shareholders, or partners, but held in its employ about two thousand persons as clerks, guides, interpreters, and "voyageurs," or boatmen.
All hands--and there were twenty-eight-- were
shareholders, in varying proportions, in the adventure.
The folly of the greater number of the commissioners and
shareholders amounted to infatuation; -- a thousand pounds per annum given in some cases to entertain the Chilian authorities; libraries of well-bound geological books; miners brought out for particular metals, as tin, which are not found in Chile; contracts to supply the miners with milk, in parts where there are no cows; machinery, where it could not possibly be used; and a hundred similar arrangements, bore witness to our absurdity, and to this day afford amusement to the natives.