The Romance of CommerceJohn Lane, 1918 - 422 páginas |
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... greatest , everything else being fairly equal , arts thrive the most . A thousand departments of mental and physical activity foster and in turn are fostered by its achieve- ment . People must be governed , and there must be those who ...
... greatest , everything else being fairly equal , arts thrive the most . A thousand departments of mental and physical activity foster and in turn are fostered by its achieve- ment . People must be governed , and there must be those who ...
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... greatest success , but they know much more ; they know it is putting , and in many communi- ties has put , Commerce as a life work again into that splendid dignified position which it rightly held under the merchant - adventurers in the ...
... greatest success , but they know much more ; they know it is putting , and in many communi- ties has put , Commerce as a life work again into that splendid dignified position which it rightly held under the merchant - adventurers in the ...
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... greatest force of character , and they must exercise these powers continuously or sink under keen and relentless competition , just as the swimmer in deep water sinks and dies if he fails to use his arms . The head of a great business ...
... greatest force of character , and they must exercise these powers continuously or sink under keen and relentless competition , just as the swimmer in deep water sinks and dies if he fails to use his arms . The head of a great business ...
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... greatest men or greatest merchants without imagination . Samuel Smiles and his rules of saving , of thrift , of following in the footsteps of our fathers , may be well enough , but a long way behind the principles of those great ...
... greatest men or greatest merchants without imagination . Samuel Smiles and his rules of saving , of thrift , of following in the footsteps of our fathers , may be well enough , but a long way behind the principles of those great ...
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... greatest in all those particulars in the world , and do we not boast of being so ? ' Tis evident it was all derived from trade . Our merchants are princes , greater and richer and more powerful than some sovereign princes ; and in a ...
... greatest in all those particulars in the world , and do we not boast of being so ? ' Tis evident it was all derived from trade . Our merchants are princes , greater and richer and more powerful than some sovereign princes ; and in a ...
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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.