 ... life — a catastrophe but too frequent in other countries. This phenomenon, apparently in contradiction with the preceding observations, may be attributed chiefly to the levity of the Russian temperament, and partly to this, that the Russian merchant,...  Russia and the Russians, in 1842 - Page 362by Johann Georg Kohl - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Commerce - 1844 - 598 pages
...temperament, and partly to this, that the Russian merchant, in losing his money, does not consider his honor as a trader and his credit as a man at all affected,...S'bogom," (with God) his card-house afresh. There are in Petersburgh not a few Russian merchants, who have more than once saved nothing from the wreck but their... | |
 | Commerce - 1844 - 602 pages
...temperament, and partly to this, that the Russian merchant, in losing his money, doe« not consider his honor as a trader and his credit as a man at all affected,...with them !) he says of his lost moneys, and begins " íi'bogom," (with God) his card-house afresh. There are in Petersburg!! not a few Russian merchants,... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Business - 1865 - 462 pages
...and partly to this — that the Russian merchant, in losing his money, does not consider his honor as a trader and his credit as a man at all affected,...exists. " Bog S'nim " (God with them !) he says of his last moneys, and begins " &bоgот " (with God) his card house afresh. There are in St. Petersburg... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Business - 1868 - 906 pages
...and partly to this — that the Russian merchant, in losing his money, does not consider his honor as a trader and his credit as a man at all affected,...exists. " Bog S'nim " (God with them !) he says of his last moneys, and begins " S'bogom " (with ; God) his card house afresh. There are 1 in St. Petersburg... | |
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