var szmvars="moneyh//CP"; Firmen Personen Stichwort Seite Firmendaten Handelsregisterdaten Bonitätsauskünfte Überwachung Neugründungen ... Top Unternehmen Interaktiv Aktuelle Beiträge Firmenporträts Marktplatz Trendblog Internet ... Bücher Über moneyhouse Was ist moneyhouse? Über uns Häufige Fragen (FAQ) Werbung/Mediadaten ... Kontakt Login Passwort vergessen Registrieren E-Mail: Passwort: The Star Chamber Start Artikel: The Star Chamber AGB Schlagwort Titel Autor Verlag ISBN The Star Chamber von Ainsworth, William Harrison Typ: Hardcover, Softcover Umfang: 332 S. ISBN: Verlag: Wildside Press Sachgruppe: English Books Sprache: Englisch Verfügbarkeit: in ca. 3 Wochen lieferbar Preis: CHF 30.10 CHF 27.90 Kaufen Klappentext Evil days were at hand. Hitherto, all had been smiling and prosperous. The prospect now began to darken. Within the last twelve months a strange and unlooked for interference had taken place with our hostess's profits, which she had viewed, at first, without much anxiety, because she did not clearly comprehend its scope; but latterly, as its formidable character became revealed, it began to fill her with uneasiness. The calamity, as she naturally enough regarded it, arose in the following manner. The present was an age of monopolies and patents, granted by a crown ever eager to obtain money under any pretext, however unjustifiable and iniquitous, provided it was plausibly colored; and these vexatious privileges were purchased by greedy and unscrupulous persons for the purpose of turning them into instruments of extortion and wrong. . . . | |
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