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A series of biographical sketches and anecdotes examines how diverse individuals accumulated wealth through steady industry, invention, trade, and opportunism. The chapters range from urban financiers and transatlantic self-made figures to provincial entrepreneurs, publishers, and eccentric capitalists, highlighting unconventional routes such as temperance, vegetarian practices, or inventive patents. Profiles include philanthropic outcomes and creative professions alongside practical commercial examples. Throughout, the text emphasizes recurring traits—hard work, thrift, honesty, and tactical risk-taking—and closes with reflections on the patterns and moral considerations that accompany the pursuit and use of money.

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FOOTNOTES.

[0]  Advertisements on the inside cover of the physical book have been moved to the end.—DP.

[76a]  Oil from rape seed or sesame seed, which last is a favourite oil in the East for cooking, and is procurable in London at half the price of olive oil; it much resembles almond oil.

[76b]  The object of the tartar was to take the place of ripe fruit as a vegetable acid.

[83]  Vegetarians usually admit a diet including milk, cheese, butter, and eggs.