The Romance of CommerceJohn Lane, 1918 - 422 էջ |
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... Government ; and he receives in return the satisfaction of doing what he can for his nation , and occasionally wins as well a niche in its temple of fame . The man possessing many lands , he especially would be a merchant in fact , and ...
... Government ; and he receives in return the satisfaction of doing what he can for his nation , and occasionally wins as well a niche in its temple of fame . The man possessing many lands , he especially would be a merchant in fact , and ...
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... governments built up , or pulled down , for Commerce . Commerce cuts the way , and all profes- sions , all arts follow . If Commerce is necessary to wealth , no Commerce means no wealth , and our statesman soon finds himself out of ...
... governments built up , or pulled down , for Commerce . Commerce cuts the way , and all profes- sions , all arts follow . If Commerce is necessary to wealth , no Commerce means no wealth , and our statesman soon finds himself out of ...
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... government which will please everyone ; and if this new Solomon comes from the same race as his distinguished predecessor we may be sure he will see to it that in his government business shall find a true friend . II The world is ripe ...
... government which will please everyone ; and if this new Solomon comes from the same race as his distinguished predecessor we may be sure he will see to it that in his government business shall find a true friend . II The world is ripe ...
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... Government . These positions , it is needless to say , must be filled with intelligent men , but equal encouragement should be given to those in other spheres of influence . Trade is the foundation of wealth . It is the great bedrock of ...
... Government . These positions , it is needless to say , must be filled with intelligent men , but equal encouragement should be given to those in other spheres of influence . Trade is the foundation of wealth . It is the great bedrock of ...
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... Government was considered not as a master nor a tyrant but as a co - worker with Commerce . If we could see through the centuries of time we should no doubt behold the great merchants as the chief men of the empire , recognized as the ...
... Government was considered not as a master nor a tyrant but as a co - worker with Commerce . If we could see through the centuries of time we should no doubt behold the great merchants as the chief men of the empire , recognized as the ...
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Էջ 14 - Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth. We repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens ; the spice-islands, our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters.
Էջ 14 - ... perfection than a crab : that our melons, our peaches, our figs, our apricots, and cherries, are strangers among us, imported in different ages, and naturalized in our English gardens ; and that they would all degenerate...
Էջ 340 - Live you? or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Էջ 124 - Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
Էջ 362 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Էջ 14 - For these reasons, there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great. Our English merchant converts the tin of his own country into gold, and exchanges his wool for rubies. The Mahometans are clothed in our British manufacture, and the inhabitants of the frozen zone warmed with the fleeces of our sheep.
Էջ 14 - ... in our English gardens; and that they would all degenerate and fall away into the trash of our own country, if they were wholly neglected by the planter, and left to the mercy of our sun and soil.
Էջ 238 - The town of Manchester, in Lancashire, must be also herein remembered and worthily for their encouragement commended, who buy the yarn of the Irish in great quantity and weaving it, return the same again into Ireland to sell. Neither doth their industry rest here ; for they buy cotton wool in London, that comes first from Cyprus and Smyrna, and at home work the same and perfect it into fustians...
Էջ 131 - It is impossible to describe all the parts and circumstances of this fair exactly; the shops are placed in rows like streets...
Էջ 24 - Chi, sowing grain, and showing the multitudes how to procure the food of toil in addition to flesh meat. I urged them further to exchange what they had for what they had not, and to dispose of their accumulated stores. In this way all the people got grain to eat, and all the States began to come under good rule.