The Romance of CommerceJohn Lane, 1918 - 422 páginas |
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... fathers , may be well enough , but a long way behind the principles of those great merchant - adventurers who fearlessly planted the flag and established the outposts of the nation's Com- merce in the most distant points of the ...
... fathers , may be well enough , but a long way behind the principles of those great merchant - adventurers who fearlessly planted the flag and established the outposts of the nation's Com- merce in the most distant points of the ...
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... father and decided to carry out on a magnificent scale his father's design to build a temple to Jehovah , he turned to his friend and former contrac- tor , Hiram , begging him for workers in fine bronze , in silver and in gold , for ...
... father and decided to carry out on a magnificent scale his father's design to build a temple to Jehovah , he turned to his friend and former contrac- tor , Hiram , begging him for workers in fine bronze , in silver and in gold , for ...
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... father of Demosthenes was a sword - maker , the father of Socrates owned a flute factory , Lysias and his brother owned a shield factory , employing one hundred and twenty slaves ; the mother of Euripides was a grocer , and we are told ...
... father of Demosthenes was a sword - maker , the father of Socrates owned a flute factory , Lysias and his brother owned a shield factory , employing one hundred and twenty slaves ; the mother of Euripides was a grocer , and we are told ...
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... father had built up . He recognized wealth and growing wealth as of great importance , and knew well that an enormous commercial house yielded annual profits greater than those obtained by any other means . And while his edu- cation in ...
... father had built up . He recognized wealth and growing wealth as of great importance , and knew well that an enormous commercial house yielded annual profits greater than those obtained by any other means . And while his edu- cation in ...
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... father had so carefully watched and splendidly directed . We have searched for data dealing with this house of business , but nothing has appeared . The great libraries contain many works upon Cosimo- himself the founder of the great ...
... father had so carefully watched and splendidly directed . We have searched for data dealing with this house of business , but nothing has appeared . The great libraries contain many works upon Cosimo- himself the founder of the great ...
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ability Augsburg bank baronet baronetcy became Bristol British Museum brother brought Bruges built called carried century chief Chinese cloth commerce daughter descendants Duke Earl early East Edward Emperor England English Europe fair famous father favour foreign fortune France Fugger furs gold guilds Hansa Hanseatic League Henry honour Hudson's Bay Company Humphrey Chetham hundred important India interest Jacob Jacob Fugger John King land League line engraving lived livery companies London Lord Mayor Lorenzo Lubeck managers manufacture married matter Medici mercer merchandise merchant-adventurers merchants Mitsui nation North-West Company Phoenicians possession princes profit Queen Rembrandt photogravure Reproduced in Rembrandt rich Richard Richard Whittington romance royal sell sent ships silk Sir Thomas SIR THOMAS GRESHAM success things tion to-day town trade Venice wealth Whittington William William Canynge William Walworth wonderful wool
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 131 - It is impossible to describe all the parts and circumstances of this fair exactly; the shops are placed in rows like streets...
Página 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.