The Romance of CommerceJohn Lane, 1918 - 422 էջ |
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... men , except the idlers , are merchants . We give this title exclusively to the man who buys and sells merchandise , but the artist sells the work of his B any brush and in this he is a merchant . CONCERNING COMMERCE.
... men , except the idlers , are merchants . We give this title exclusively to the man who buys and sells merchandise , but the artist sells the work of his B any brush and in this he is a merchant . CONCERNING COMMERCE.
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... gives both strength and substance , and more than this , for it gives colour as well . Its threads are so closely interwoven with the rest as to be almost indistinguishable from them . Or to change the simile , Commerce is the ...
... gives both strength and substance , and more than this , for it gives colour as well . Its threads are so closely interwoven with the rest as to be almost indistinguishable from them . Or to change the simile , Commerce is the ...
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... give a new philosophy that shall eliminate from the mind those little , petty , mean elements which cause it to be so earthy . Why should man allow jealousy to make him miserable ? Why should he hold his eyes so close to the surface ...
... give a new philosophy that shall eliminate from the mind those little , petty , mean elements which cause it to be so earthy . Why should man allow jealousy to make him miserable ? Why should he hold his eyes so close to the surface ...
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... give us new ideas of life ! And in all phases of life we find this want . Just as the foolish superstitious person surrounds himself with childish notions and distresses himself because he sees the moon over the wrong shoulder , or ...
... give us new ideas of life ! And in all phases of life we find this want . Just as the foolish superstitious person surrounds himself with childish notions and distresses himself because he sees the moon over the wrong shoulder , or ...
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... give way to the new , and the philosophy of the leaders in the world's Commerce is diametrically opposed to all those old unprincipled principles . It is not clever to be too " shrewd . " It is not good to get the better of another by ...
... give way to the new , and the philosophy of the leaders in the world's Commerce is diametrically opposed to all those old unprincipled principles . It is not clever to be too " shrewd . " It is not good to get the better of another by ...
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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.