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What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day?

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience 2004

One British tourist after another visited this country, with his glass at his eye, and his small vocabulary of "Very odd!" for all that was new to him; his "Quite so!" for whatever was noblest in thought or deed; his "Very clever!" for the encouragement of genius; and his "All that sort of thing, you know!" for the less marketable virtues and heroisms not to be found in the Cockney price-current.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

The Vicomte was in possession of the latest advices thence; the arrivals and expected arrivals, and the price-current of stock: that is, of marriageable young gentlemen, and all other matters of gossip; how the whole family of the

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

It also publishes a weekly price-current of the produce of the country.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

One might read the price-current in the busy wrinkles.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

He could neither divide nor multiply by fractions, and it is not too much to say that he might have been throttled on the spot if the moonshiners could have had a mental vision of the liberties the stalwart integers were taking with their price-current, so to speak, and the preternatural discount that was making so free with their profits.

The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Prayer hummed up on every side, rising as the fragrant breath of souls above a city where, by way of divine service, nothing was chanted but the price-current of grain and the higher and lower cost of horses in the fairs which, on certain days, brought all the copers of La Perche together in the

The Cathedral 1877

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today?

Civil Disobedience 1866

If an accurate yearly price-current of slaves since the Revolution could be had, it would indicate the fluctuating probabilities of their general emancipation more exactly than the value of the English consolidated debt follows the varying prospects of peace or war.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

I thanked him for the trouble which he had taken; and now submit a copy of his price-current:

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856