 | William Henry Hudson - 1915 - Страниц: 272
...torrent of instructive platitudes upon his head. THOR. Your curiosity is laudable, and I gratify it with the greater pleasure, because from thence you may...appearance of vice or meanness in it, upon reflecting upon the dignity of our profession, you may with honest scorn reject whatever is unworthy of it. THOR.... | |
 | Страниц: 588
...gratifies the ' laudable curiosity ' of his faithful apprentice, Trueman, as to the political situation, because from thence you may learn how honest merchants,...do at all times to its happiness; that if hereafter yon should be tempted to any action that has the appearance of vice or meanness in it, upon reflecting... | |
 | David Harrison Stevens - 1923 - Страниц: 938
...pleasure, \ because from thence you may learn how honj est merchants, as such, may sometimes con-4 tribute to the safety of their country, as they/ ~)\ do at all times to its happiness ; that if hereyou should be tempted to any action" r tfiat has the appearance of vice or meanness eaj in it,... | |
 | Robert Metcalf Smith - 1928 - Страниц: 596
...by what means — if I am too bold — THOROWGOOD. Your curiosity is laudable. And I gratify it with the greater pleasure, because from thence you may...honest merchants, as such, may sometimes contribute tojthe saTety of their country, as they do at all times to its happiness; that if hereafter you should... | |
 | George Lillo - 1965 - Страниц: 140
...invasion of England in 1588. THOROWGOOD. Your curiosity is laudable, and I gratify it with the greater 1 5 pleasure because from thence you may learn how honest...of vice or meanness in it, upon reflecting on the 20 dignity of our profession, you may with honest scorn reject whatever is unworthy of it. Should Barnwell,... | |
 | Heinz Schlaffer - 1989 - Страниц: 182
...the case of Thorowgood in Lillo's London Merchant). Thorowgood explains to his assistant, Trueman, 'how honest Merchants, as such, may sometimes contribute...Country, as they do at all times to its happiness', and quotes him an example. At the time when Genoa was on the point of siding with England's enemy,... | |
 | Lawrence Stone - 1994 - Страниц: 384
...personal life, generous in hospitality and charity, he succeeds in teaching Truegood 'how honest merchants may sometimes contribute to the safety of their country, as they do at all times to its happiness' (II.i.16-18). Barnwell, on the other hand, is ruined by not attending to the advice and example set... | |
 | Ann Bermingham, John Brewer - 1995 - Страниц: 668
...personal life, generous in hospitality and charity, he succeeds in teaching Truegood "how honest merchants may sometimes contribute to the safety of their country, as they do at all times to its happiness" (II. i. 16-18). Barnwell, on the other hand, is ruined by not attending to the advice and example set... | |
 | John O'Brien - 2004 - Страниц: 310
...the "time" she needs to outfit her navy. The moral of this story, according to Thorowgood, is that "merchants, as such, may sometimes contribute to the...country as they do at all times to its happiness" (n), a point phrased so generally ("as such"; "sometimes") as to be exportable from its historical... | |
 | Herman Roodenburg, Pieter Spierenburg, Clive Emsley, Eric Arthur Johnson - 2004 - Страниц: 392
...shown conducting business together, Thorowgood presents a brief eulogy of the merchant class, declaring how "honest merchants, as such, may sometimes contribute to the safety of the country, as they do to its happiness," warning Trueman that "if hereafter you should be tempted... | |
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Your curiosity is laudable ; and I gratify it with the greater pleasure, because from thence you may learn how honest merchants, as such, may sometimes contribute to the safety of their country, as they do at all times to its happiness... 
