 | Daniel Defoe - 1903 - 622 pages
...time, and he was desired by the gentleman that I was with to see that I might not be imposed upon. All this work took me up near half a year, and by [197] managing my business thus myself, and having large sums to do with, I became as expert in it... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1908 - 332 pages
...time, and he was desired by the gentleman that I was with to see that I might not be imposed upon. All this work took me up near half a year, and by [ 197 ] managing my business thus myself, and having large sums to do with, I became as expert in it... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 250 pages
...time; and he was desir'd by the Gentleman that I was with, to see that I might not be impos'd upon. All this Work took me up near half a Year, and by...Business thus myself, and having large Sums to do with, became as expert in it, as any She-Merchant of them all ; I had credit in the Bank for a large Sum... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 256 pages
...time; and he was desir'd by the Gentleman that I was with, to see that I might not be impos'd upon. All this Work took me up near half a Year, and by...Business thus myself, and having large Sums to do with, became as expert in it, as any She-Merchant of them all ; I had credit in the Bank for a large Sum... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1982 - 420 pages
...time; and he was desir'd by the Gentleman that I was with, to see that I might not be impos'd upon. All this Work took me up near half a Year, and by...three Months, my Maid Amy writes me word, that she had receiv'da Letter from her Friend, as she call'd him, that, by the way, was the Prince's Gentleman,... | |
 | Laura Brown - 1993 - 220 pages
...becomes, in her own words, "from a Lady of Pleasure, a Woman of Business, and of great Business too .... by managing my Business thus myself, and having large...became as expert in it, as any SheMerchant of them all" (171, 131). She learns her business in Holland, which in this period was for English advocates of trade... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - 1996 - 308 pages
...her wits, though she is first and foremost a coolheaded businesswoman: "By managing my Business . . . myself, and having large Sums to do with, I became...large Sum of Money, and Bills and Notes for much more" (170). True, on many occasions Roxana laments the "whoring" that has made her life one "full of prosperous... | |
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Year, and by managing my Business thus myself, and having large Sums to do with, I became as expert in it, as any SheMerchant of them all; I had Credit in the Bank for a large Sum of Money, and Bills and Notes for much more. 