The Complete English Tradesman, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1841 - Всего страниц: 323 |
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... young trades- man ; which are the more necessary , as there never were so many bankruptcies or failures in trade as of late . Had I not seen , in a few years ' experience , many young tradesmen miscarry for want of the very cautions ...
... young trades- man ; which are the more necessary , as there never were so many bankruptcies or failures in trade as of late . Had I not seen , in a few years ' experience , many young tradesmen miscarry for want of the very cautions ...
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... young tradesman to stem the attacks of those fatal customs , which otherwise will inevitably send him the way of all the thoughtless tradesmen that have gone before him . Here he will be effectually encouraged to set out well , and to ...
... young tradesman to stem the attacks of those fatal customs , which otherwise will inevitably send him the way of all the thoughtless tradesmen that have gone before him . Here he will be effectually encouraged to set out well , and to ...
Стр. xiv
... young trades- man ruined by marrying even a good wife . How requisite it is that a wife should know her husband's circumstances , in or- der to square her way of living and house- keeping by what he can afford CHAP . XIII . Of the ...
... young trades- man ruined by marrying even a good wife . How requisite it is that a wife should know her husband's circumstances , in or- der to square her way of living and house- keeping by what he can afford CHAP . XIII . Of the ...
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... young ; I mean , when he goes apprentice , and the notions of trade are scarce got into his head ; for the first ... Young Man's Pocket Companion , " which , besides some other very needful things , contain general rules and directions ...
... young ; I mean , when he goes apprentice , and the notions of trade are scarce got into his head ; for the first ... Young Man's Pocket Companion , " which , besides some other very needful things , contain general rules and directions ...
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... young man neglects this part , and passes over the season for such improvement , he very rarely ever recovers it ; for this part has its season ; and that lost , never comes again . A judgment in goods , taken in early , is never lost ...
... young man neglects this part , and passes over the season for such improvement , he very rarely ever recovers it ; for this part has its season ; and that lost , never comes again . A judgment in goods , taken in early , is never lost ...
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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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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.