...persons to ascertain with fair certainty the real position of conspicuous persons, and to learn all which was material in fixing their credit. Accordingly the...than they now are, many private bankers possessed variety of knowledge and a delicacy of attainment which would even now be very rare. Such a position...

...fixing their credit. Accordingly, the bankers who for a long series of years passed successfully (172) this strict and continual investigation became very...than they now are, many private bankers possessed variety of knowledge and a delicacy of attainment which would even now be very rare. Such a position...

...^^l-airuunion of pecuniary sagacity^ajK^ducatelTTennemenfwhich was scarcely to be foun3~Ia imy-ethej" part of society. In a time when the trading classes...than they now are, many private bankers possessed variety of knowledge and a delicacy of attainment which would even now be very rare. Such a position...

...clients to 'mercantile men', and whose managers were precisely described by Walter Bagehot as possessing 'a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated...which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.'28 The account books of Hoare's bank suggest that there were three types of financial support...

...banker and the editor of The Economist, described the life accurately: The name 'London Banker' has especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent,...scarcely to be found in any other part of society . . . The calling is hereditary; the credit of the bank descends from father to son; this inherited...

...stanza quadrata con due grandi finestre che davano sul 4. Carte dell'A. 5. [The private London Banker] "was supposed to represent, and often did represent,...scarcely to be found in any other part of society". Walter W. Bagehot, Lombard Street: A Description Of The Money Market, Henry S. King and Co., London...

...but he knows that the great banker does. In JP Morgan, claimed another piece, collecting had forged a "certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated...scarcely to be found in any other part of society." By expanding the number of business managers who displayed this type of generalist acumen, Fortune...

...Likewise, Bagehot remarked that the managers of the banks of Hoare's, Child's, Gosling's, and Coutts had "a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated...which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society."2' At the bank Enfield, Hyde, the doctor, and the girl's father wait to make sure that the...