 | Martin S. Fridson - 1995 - 226 lapas
...they exaggerate everything. And as Bias deceived the ambassador of Alyattes during the siege of Priene by showing him hills of sand covered with wheat and...every dwarf will become a giant in the eyes of the bears? . . . Eudicus tells that in Hestiaeotis there were two wells called Ceron and Melan and that,... | |
 | Antoin E. Murphy - 1997 - 428 lapas
...described how uncertainty could be magnified out of all proportion by rumour and gossip: The bears are completely ruled by fear, trepidation, and nervousness....rebellions, faint shadows appear to them as signs of chaos.'Market expectations then as now were the key to determining price movements: The expectation... | |
 | James Brennan - 2003 - 340 lapas
...than they are in reality. They love everything; they praise everything; they exaggerate everything. The bears, on the contrary, are completely ruled by...nervousness. Rabbits become elephants; brawls in a taveni become rebellions; faint shadows appear to them as signs of chaos.3 The Wall Street tribe had... | |
 | Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert - 2007 - 253 lapas
...characterization that has lasted until the present day. The bears, according to Joseph de la Vega, were "completely ruled by fear, trepidation and nervousness....rebellions, faint shadows appear to them as signs of chaos." The bulls, on the other hand, constantly strove to stir up the passions of the market, to overextend... | |
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Priene by showing him hills of sand covered with wheat and intimating to him that such a wealthy town would never surrender because of famine, so the bulls make the public believe that their tricks signify wealth and that crops grow on graves. When attacked... 