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Of the stock-jobbers he always spoke with supreme contempt; in return, they hated him most cordially. On the money market it was not unusual to hear the merchants inquire,
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What does Sir John say to this? What is Sir John's opinion? He refused the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1746, and from the moment his statue was set up in Gresham's Exchange he would never enter the building, but carried on his monetary affairs outside. The Barnard blood still warms the veins of some of our wealthiest commercial magnates, since his son married the daughter of a capitalist, known in the City as
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Never grant a life annuity to an old woman; they wither, but they never die. If the proposed annuitant coughed, Gideon called out,
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Ay, ay, you may cough, but it shan't save you six months' purchase! In one of his dealings with Snow, a banker alluded to by Dean Swift, Snow lent Gideon £20,000. The
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Forty-five followed, and the banker forwarded a whining epistle to him speaking of stoppage, bankruptcy, and concluding the letter with a passionate request for his money. Gideon procured 21,000 bank-notes, rolled them round a phial of hartshorn, and thus mockingly repaid the loan. Gideon's fortune was made by the advance of the rebels towards London. Stocks fell awfully, but hastening to
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Jonathan's, he bought all in the market, spending all his cash, and pledging his name for more. The Pretender retreated, and the sagacious Hebrew became a millionaire. Mr. Gideon had a sovereign contempt for fine clothes; an essayist of the day writes,
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Neither Guy nor Gideon ever regarded dress. He educated his children in the Christian faith;
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said he,
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I'm too old to change.
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Gideon is dead, says one of his biographers,