English Merchants: Memoirs in Illustration of the Progress of British Commerce, 2. cilt

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R. Bentley, 1866 - 861 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 147 - At the side was a pan or basin of milk, and the master and apprentices, each with a wooden spoon in his hand, without loss of time dipped into the same dish and thence into the...
Sayfa 94 - He saw in increase of business only increase of headaches. " The care and attention which our business requires," said he, " make me at present dread a fresh order with as much horror as other people with joy receive one. What signifies it to a man though he gain the whole world, if he lose his health and his life ? The first of these losses has already befallen me, and the second will probably be the consequence of it, unless some favourable circumstances, which at present I cannot foresee, should...
Sayfa 75 - There be many smiths in the town, that use to make knives and all manner of cutting tools, and many lorimers that make bitts, and a great many nailors, so that a great part of the town is maintained by smiths, who have their iron and sea-coal out of Staffordshire.
Sayfa 90 - I presumed that your engine would require money, very accurate workmanship, and extensive correspondence, to make it turn out to the best advantage ; and that the best means of keeping up...
Sayfa 23 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Sayfa 24 - That, unfortunately, a policy, the very reverse of this, has been, and is more or less adopted and acted upon by the Government of this and of every other country; each trying to exclude the productions of other countries, with the specious and well'meant design of encouraging its own productions...
Sayfa 90 - I would erect all the conveniences necessary for the completion of engines, and from which manufactory we would serve all the world with engines of all sizes.
Sayfa 218 - ... clothed. :The young men, who were at this time growing more nice, got theirs from Holland for shirts, but the old ones were satisfied with necks and sleeves of the fine, which were put on loose above the country cloth.
Sayfa 163 - I thought at that moment, if my life and that of my dear relation were spared, I would one day present him to his country to follow in the same path. It is very natural that such should be my wish, and I will only say further of him, that though he is deviating from the right path in this instance, his head and heart are in the right place, and I think they will soon recall him to the right way.
Sayfa 96 - I consider my settlement at Birmingham as the happiest event in my life, being highly favourable to every object I had in view philosophical or theological. In the former respect, I had the convenience of good workmen of every kind, and the society of persons eminent for their knowledge of chemistry, particularly Mr. Watt, Mr. Keir, and Dr. Withering.

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