The fact is, that this great island has seemed to form an exception to the general prosperity; considerable fortunes have been sunk there, and the transformation has been slower and more painful there than elsewhere.
The financial crisis had just overthrown the fortunes of the people; they turned towards God and began to pray.
They know that when that day comes it will not be best for them to have their enormous fortunes in such get-at-able property as real estate, in which so many of the legitimately acquired American fortunes are invested.
Great fortunes are seldom achieved without sacrifice of morals--or at least of pride--and ambition makes meaner cowards of us than conscience.
None but those who have plundered the people--acquired overnight fortunes many times larger than any honest lifetime efforts could possibly bring--can possibly be hurt by the application of my Remedy.
Next, it will benefit that class which possesses large fortunes honestly acquired, inasmuch as it will enable them to know what there is behind their investments.
He has made and lostfortunes and is not afraid of being "broke.
From it great fortunes had been derived, and there was in course of development a copper aristocracy which threatened the supremacy of the East India aristocracy that had so long lorded it in Boston society.
Fortunes are there waiting for brains to carve and take; stacked up there are millions which he who has brains can pocket without a "by-your-leave.
That the insiders of these insurance companies, not one but several of them, have accumulated fortunes in the past few years, of from one to twenty millions, while at the same time premium-rates have advanced and dividends decreased.
Probably Macartney, and Hamilton, and Mohun, and the Duke are best remembered in our time because of the {123} effect which that fatal meeting had upon the fortunes of Beatrix Esmond.
It is said that had he kept faith he could have turned thefortunes of the day.
He had been Secretary at War and afterwards Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Tories; he had clung to Bolingbroke's fortunes at the time of Bolingbroke's {289} rupture with Harley.
He liked to be known as a man who could spend the whole night in a drunken revel, and the afternoon in preparing some despatch on which the fortunes of his country or the peace of the world might depend.
He objected to these words, and proposed an amendment, with an eloquence and an energy worthy of his best days, and with a front as seemingly fearless as though his fortunes were at the full.
But the loyalty which still clung to the fading fortunes of the Stuarts was very different from this, and came into direct contrast with the feelings shown by the majority of the people of England towards the House of Hanover.
The whole story might almost be said to be an allegorical illustration of the fortunes of the Stuarts.
Only a few years ago their fortunes had seemed to have sunk to zero, and now they had mounted again to the zenith.
The swift unravelling of events was to bring variedfortunes and many adventures to the four friends who now delighted to 'act together.
But his personal fortunes and the destinies of Britain were about to receive a vast and unanticipated twist.
And in these hard times many Conservatives who disagreed altogether with Lord Randolph Churchill's views felt that his return to a commanding place was a necessary condition, if the waning fortunes of their party were to be retrieved.
The Parnellite manifesto and the Irish vote weakened, perhaps fatally, the Liberals who a few months later were to stake their fortunes upon Home Rule.
Although Lord Randolph's letters to his mother, to give her pleasure, were written in a cheery and optimistic vein, there is no doubt that he felt very bitterly the sudden reversal of his fortunes and the arrest of his career.
The immediate dissolution of Parliament will afford an opportunity to the nation to decide upon a course which will materially influence its future fortunes and shape its destiny.
He had made and lost and made again considerable fortunes in the enterprise and struggle of American life.
The county gentlemen and farmers who had followed their fortunes with pleasure, if not with profit, determined to mark their appreciation of the pack and its youthful Master by the customary British ceremony of a dinner.
Even this rejoinder could not sustain the fortunes of the debate.
It is idle to speculate upon what his work and fortunes might have been, had he continued to lead the House of Commons and influence against its inclinations the Conservative party.
The suffering caused by this wreck of fortunes was great.
The maid would be ruined and her own fortunes made.
He is now considered to be deeply involved in the Southern transactions relating to the acquisition of Texas, whatever these may in reality be, and to have linked his fortunes with the slavery question.
The stories on this side of the question are as various as the characters and fortunes of the heroes of them.
Amid the totteringfortunes of their neighbours, Egypt alone stood erect, and it was, therefore, to Egypt that they turned their eyes.
He did not live long to enjoy his triumphs, but his death made no impression on the impulse given to the fortunes of his country.
A romance of chivalry in feudal times, setting forth the adventures of a youthful knight who seeks his fortunes in the world.
Then, wherever the fortunes of war may send me, I can carry with me the certainty of your love.
You must have spent fortunesfrom your own pocket to help the Federals!
With Count Egmont the excellent army of Walloons was also lost to the cause, for they followed with blind devotion the fortunes of their general, who had taught them at St. Quentin and Gravelines to be invincible.
I trust my fate and fortunes to his justice and clemency.
However, from 1070 the fortunes of the city began to mend rapidly.
We have ventured to give this brief sketch of the origin of these rival claims, in that most of the cathedral cities were affected by the fortunes or misfortunes of their favoured party.
Ladies that get fortunes from India are covered all over with gold chains, and gold muslins, and scarlet shawls.
Some of the first fortunes on the continent, on the part of the Whigs, are staked on the issue of our present measures.
The fortunes of Bonaparte began with that exploit, and the first event of his career was the spectacle of a British fleet flying before him by the glare of an immense conflagration.
This was the first step towards that Commune which was to exercise so vast an influence over the fortunes of France.
Yet the defeat of Fleurus, after such varying fortunes and so much alternate success does not explain the sudden discouragement and collapse of the allies.
More than once, without public favour, but by mere power of political thinking, he governed the fortunes of the State.
The Austrians, under the duke of Coburg, who on that day founded the great fortunes of his house, came back in force, and gave battle at Neerwinden, close to the fields of Landen and of Ramillies.
Bunner Sisters, an observant, tender narrative, concerns itself with the declining fortunes of two shopkeepers of Stuyvesant Square in New York's age of innocence.
Her play The Arrow Maker exhibits the behavior and fortunes of a desert-seeress among her own people.
These evenings as in days of old The Larinas would celebrate, The servants used to congregate And the young ladies fortunes told, And every year distributed Journeys and warriors to wed.
Divination, or the telling of fortunes by various expedients, is the favourite pastime on these occasions.
These are popularly supposed to indicate the fortunes of the immediate holder of the ring.
In the Path of Duty; or, The Fortunes of Officer Dan Deering.
Carl Pretzel=, a cheerful and rollicking German boy, stout of frame as well as of heart, who is led by a fortunate accident to link his fortunes with those of Motor Matt.
Trix was not in the least inclined to be busy with more fortunes than her own.
It seems that he had taken compassion on the forlorn fortunesof Starlight Tom, and had been trying his eloquence in his favour the whole way from the village, but without effect.
The squire was struck by the contrast in appearance and fortunes of these early playmates.
They read their fortunes by drawing strokes in the ashes, or by repeating a form of words, and looking in a pail of water.
If I were a mind-reader I could have made a dozen fortunesby now.
Evidently the tales one heard of fortunes accumulated overnight in this magic city were true, and one of them must have fallen to the lot of Uncle Chris.
Why then are we mistaken, as if we intended not equal advantages in our commonwealth to either sex, because we would not have women's fortunes consist in that metal which exposes them to cutpurses?
For the sake of economising transportation, and sharing the fortunes of our men, whatever they might be, Dodd and I abandoned our pavoskas, and drove our own loaded sledges.
I had no difficulty in singling out the happy individuals whose fortunes were to be united in the holy bonds of matrimony.
