The Complete English Tradesman, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1841 - 323 páginas |
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... towns , and even in the waterside part of London itself , are necessarily brought in to be owners of ships , and concerned at least in the vessel , if not in the voyage ; some of their trades , perhaps , relate to or are employed in the ...
... towns , and even in the waterside part of London itself , are necessarily brought in to be owners of ships , and concerned at least in the vessel , if not in the voyage ; some of their trades , perhaps , relate to or are employed in the ...
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... town , where I am en- tered upon my business , and hereby let you know that I shall have occasion for the goods hereafter mentioned , which you may send to me by the carrier . This fine flourish , which the young fellow dressed up with ...
... town , where I am en- tered upon my business , and hereby let you know that I shall have occasion for the goods hereafter mentioned , which you may send to me by the carrier . This fine flourish , which the young fellow dressed up with ...
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... town , the merchant dislikes them ; the warehouse - man shuffles them back upon the clothier to lie for his account , pretending they are not made to his order ; the clothier is discouraged , and , for want of his money , discredited ...
... town , the merchant dislikes them ; the warehouse - man shuffles them back upon the clothier to lie for his account , pretending they are not made to his order ; the clothier is discouraged , and , for want of his money , discredited ...
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... towns in England , that there are more tradesmen undone by having too much trade than for having too little ; for the latter , if he be indus- trious , will try twenty ways to mend his case . Over- trading is among tradesmen as ...
... towns in England , that there are more tradesmen undone by having too much trade than for having too little ; for the latter , if he be indus- trious , will try twenty ways to mend his case . Over- trading is among tradesmen as ...
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... towns , but particularly in the city of London , there are places , as it were , ap- propriated to particular trades , and where the trades which are placed there succeed very well , but would do very ill anywhere else ; as , the orange ...
... towns , but particularly in the city of London , there are places , as it were , ap- propriated to particular trades , and where the trades which are placed there succeed very well , but would do very ill anywhere else ; as , the orange ...
Términos y frases comunes
able abroad accept acquainted alderman apprentice assignees attendance bankrupt better bills break bring brought buyer carry cash CHAP cheat circumstances city of London comes commission commissioners creditors customers danger daugh daughter of sir deal debtor debts diligent endorse England expense extravagant fatal fortune give hand honest honour inland trade keep ladies living lord chancellor lord mayor manufactures master mayor of London mean mercer merchant needful thing neighbours neral never obliged occasion ordinary paid particular partner partnership payment perhaps person poor present lord promise racters reason ruin sell servants shillings shopkeeper silk sir Josiah Child sort speak suppose things thousand pounds trust usance warehouse weaver whole widow wife William Cockayne William Cowper word young tradesman
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Página 158 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Página 63 - ... tis his business to be ill used and resent nothing; and so must answer as obligingly to those that give him an hour or two's trouble and buy nothing, as he does to those- who in half the time lay out ten or twenty pounds. The case is plain, and if some do give him trouble and do not buy, others make amends and do buy; and as for the trouble, 'tis the business of the shop.
Página 64 - ... done. There are men who have by custom and usage brought themselves to it, that nothing could be meeker and milder than they when behind the counter, and yet nothing be more furious and raging in every other part of life : nay, the provocations they have met with in their shops have so irritated their rage, that they would go...
Página 62 - ... worth of goods, and scarce bids money for any thing ; nay, though they really come to his shop with no intent to buy, as many do, only to see what is to be sold, and though he knows they cannot be better pleased, than they are, at some other shop where they intend to buy, 'tis all one, the tradesman must take it, he must place it to the account of his calling, that...
Página 243 - THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TRADESMAN CHAPTER XXV Of the dignity of trade in England, more than in other countries. That England is the greatest trading country in the world; that our climate is the best to live in; that our men are the stoutest and best; that the tradesmen in England are not of the meanest of the people; that the wealth of the nation lies chiefly among them; that trade is a continual fund for supplying the decays in the ranf.
Página 62 - A tradesman behind his counter must have no flesh and blood about him, no passions, no resentment ; he must never be angry, no, not so much as seem to be so, if a customer tumbles him five hundred pounds...
Página 21 - If any man were to ask me, which would be supposed to be a perfect style, or language, I would answer, that in which a man speaking to five hundred people, of all common and various capacities, idiots or lunatics excepted, should be understood by them all...
Página 244 - As so many of our noble and wealthy families are raised by, and derive from trade, so it is true, and, indeed, it cannot well be otherwise, that many of the younger branches of our gentry, and even of the nobility itself, have descended again into the spring from whence they flowed, and have become tradesmen...
Página 244 - Kings that ever reign'd in England, that best understood the country and the people that he govern'd, us'd to say, That the Tradesmen were the only Gentry in England: His Majesty spoke it merrily, but it had a happy signification in it, such as was peculiar to the best Genius of that Prince, who, tho...
Página 64 - The bottom of all is, that he is intending to get money by them ; and it is not for him that gets money to offer the least inconvenience to them by whom he gets it. He is to consider that, as Solomon says, "the borrower is servant to the lender;'1 so the seller is servant to the buyer.