English Merchants: Memoirs in Illustration of the Progress of British Commerce, 1. ciltChatto and Windus, 1886 - 492 sayfa |
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American Antwerp Bank of England banker Baring became Benjamin Heywood Bill Bristol brother brought century charter Chetham chief chiefly Church cloth colonies commerce common cotton daughter debts died Edinburgh Edward enterprise established exchange exports famous father favour foreign France friends Gentleman's Magazine George Heriot Glasgow Government Gresham guild Hawkins Henry Heriot Heywood honour Humphrey Chetham hundred Ibid important influential interest James John King King's labour Lancashire lived Liverpool London Lord Manchester manufacture married Mayor member of Parliament Myddelton Nathan Meyer Rothschild nation nearly Norwich Parliament Paterson poor ports profit prosperity Queen reign rich Richard Richard Whittington Robert Peel Rothschild Saint Samuel Gurney says Scotland sent ships Sir Robert Sir Robert Peel Sir Thomas soon sort Street told took town trade vessels voyage wealth Whittington William William Canynge wool woollen
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Sayfa 203 - 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.
Sayfa 242 - The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care, as much as our trade ; 'tis that must maintain our force when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade ; 'tis that must make us a nation in India.
Sayfa 203 - 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.
Sayfa 28 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers of the flood ; Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea Do overpeer the petty traffickers That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Sayfa 203 - ... 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...
Sayfa 370 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.
Sayfa 352 - 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 204 - 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.
Sayfa 228 - it was not a little strange to see with what earnestness and pains we worked, sweating most immoderately, and scarce allowing ourselves time to eat. At the lighter works in the afternoon, he hath sat, perhaps, scraping a stick or turning a piece of wood, and this for many afternoons together, all the while singing like a cobbler, incomparably better pleased than he had been in all the stages of his life before. And it is a mortifying speculation, that of the different characters of this man's enjoyments,...
Sayfa 352 - All his commodities were conveyed on pack-horses, and he was from home the greater part of every year, performing his journeys entirely on horseback. His balances were received in guineas, and were carried with him in his saddle-bags. He was exposed to the vicissitudes of the weather, to great labour and fatigue, and to constant danger.