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1. Hopefully she could get enough money from Herndon that she wouldn't have to tend sail on a freighter to get home, she hadn't brought much with her and with all his fortunes he often balked at paying for her yaag
2. doostEr was suspicious that Tahlmute was coloring this with his own fortunes, the Yingolian crystals bubble burst ten decades ago
3. Fortunes varied, were won and lost, and the family name changed through the ages, becoming a proper product of each model of social propriety, until, at the very end of a long line of ancestors , there was but one member of the family left living
4. One day, attracted by the unrivalled opportunities being offered to skilled people by this new broom sweeping through government’s old and crusty cobwebs of social patronage, two provincial public relations specialists arrived in the city determined to make their fortunes
5. Most of all, however, it was called by this name because it was funny watching other people making complete fools of themselves, and pretty soon nearly every television programme featured ordinary people trying to win small fortunes, to become movie stars and generally being the nastiest of nasties in the woodpile
6. Fortunes varied, were
7. specialists arrived in the city determined to make their fortunes
8. But when the ships gates first opened, he had been one of the people gaping up into it and the glittering fortunes on display
9. own fortunes over the past week or so
10. restore the fortunes of Jacob and will
11. 1“In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah
12. fortunes fluctuated depending on the skill of the hunters
13. The great fortunes so suddenly and so easily acquired in Bengal and the other British settlements in the East Indies, may satisfy us, that as the wages of labour are very low, so the profits of stock are very high in those ruined countries
14. All people of small or middling fortunes would be obliged to superintend themselves the employment of their own stocks
15. It seldom happens, however, that great fortunes are made, even in great towns,
16. eminent teachers in those times appear to have acquired great fortunes
17. ‘The fortunes of this Abbey won’t be determined by
18. Mining, it seems, is considered there in the same light as here, as a lottery, in which the prizes do not compensate the blanks, though the greatness of some tempts many adventurers to throw away their fortunes in such unprosperous projects
19. We see, every day, the most splendid fortunes, that have been acquired in the course of a single life, by trade and manufactures, frequently from a very small capital, sometimes from no capital
20. Though individuals, besides, may sometimes ruin their fortunes by an excessive consumption of fermented liquors, there seems to be no risk that a nation should do so
21. There were families out there who would give half of their fortunes away to have a son-in-law like him
22. That this extraordinary profit, however, is no more than sufficient to put his trade upon a fair level with other trades, and to compensate the many losses which he sustains upon other occasions, both from the perishable nature of the commodity itself, and from the frequent and unforeseen fluctuations of its price, seems evident enough, from this single circumstance, that great fortunes are as seldom made in this as in any other trade
23. And its not just alligators - crocodiles, monitor lizards and even snakes all experience an upturn in their fortunes
24. This law, however, though we read of its having been executed upon one or two occasions, was either neglected or evaded, and the inequality of fortunes went on continually increasing
25. This total exemption front trouble and front risk, beyond a limited sum, encourages many people to become adventurers in joint-stock companies, who would, upon no account, hazard their fortunes in any private copartnery
26. Their ill success was imputed, by their factors and agents, to the extortion and oppression of the Spanish government ; but was, perhaps, principally owing to the profusion and depredations of those very factors and agents; some of whom are said to have acquired great fortunes, even in one year
27. The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and, by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole society
28. The English copper company of London, the lead-smelting company, the glass-grinding company, have not even the pretext of any great or singular utility in the object which they pursue ; nor does the pursuit of that object seem to require any expense unsuitable to the fortunes of many private men
29. In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition ; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been eminent in that profession?
30. Princes, however, have frequently engaged in many other mercantile projects, and have been willing, like private persons, to mend their fortunes, by becoming adventurers in the common branches of trade
31. Those agents frequently live with the profusion of princes ; and sometimes, too, in spite of that profusion, and by a proper method of making up their accounts, acquire the fortunes of princes
32. All shop-keepers and tradesmen worth more than three hundred pounds, that is, the better sort of them, were subject to the same assessment, how great soever might be the difference in their fortunes
33. Their wealth would alone excite the public indignation; and the vanity which almost always accompanies such upstart fortunes, the foolish ostentation with which they commonly display that wealth, excite that indignation still more
34. It occasions a general and most pernicious subversion of the fortunes of private people; enriching, in most cases, the idle and profuse debtor, at the expense of the industrious and frugal creditor ; and transporting a great part of the national capital from the hands which were likely to increase and improve it, to those who are likely to dissipate and destroy it
35. world, all seeking their own fortunes
36. A seemingly small player in the very big game, he was as unnoticed like a shadow, watching for the gaps and the opportunities to change fortunes for those who needed it
37. In a period of hyperinflation, Forge’s fortunes would become meaningless
38. The opponents of ―Wealth‖ oftentimes ignore its humbler origins by rejecting off-hand the many hardships that many financially successful individuals had to endure—hard work, taking calculated risks and self-sacrifice in order to acquire their fortune(s)
39. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life
40. That the confiscation of personal property and private fortunes promotes wealth creation is a non sequitur!
41. Beneath the brightest of moons the air rang with the screams and shouts of the struggling boars as they swayed back and forth across the clearing, their changing fortunes marked by the growing bloodstains on the soil
42. The Victors oftentimes look to consolidate their fortunes for their own sake rather than taking a chance that the spoils of victory might spill over to the Vanquished
43. As a graying sixties generation quickly approaches middle age, sustained by a wistful desire for the ―good old days‖ that typified its youthful idealism, many can‘t help reflecting on those formative years without forlorn regret over a progeny whose slackening awareness and indifference to social ―causes‖ and other immediate issues that continue to trouble our society has given way to self-gratifying designs, like amassing ―huge‖ fortunes, for example
44. crew member’s fortunes would rise or fall at the whim of the
45. thousand traveled to Alaska seeking their fortunes, and about
46. In Victorian times, Nottinghamshire farmers had made their fortunes and losses on just this spot
47. Had they known that taking out Quan would reap these kinds of fortunes, they’d have done it years ago
48. ing our fortunes, homes, and retirement nest egg-things that are guar-
49. To build up the family fortunes, and correctly use the family resources!
50. Since that time downtown activity has ebbed and flowed with the fortunes and misfortunes of the city