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A moneychanger is like a merchant of sorts
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The merchant stalls were thickest on the wide pavements that surrounded the walls of the palace
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A lone merchant on break was relaxing with a bite to eat and a the newspaper
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The writer liked the ideal, and the merchant wanted the equipment
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merchant who was feeling the pinch of the King’s recent
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This horse carriage was owned by a Cheese Merchant, who had come to sell all her cheeses
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But then, a bureaucratic sheriff came along and declared that the Cheese Merchant needed to fill in a 93-paged form before she could enter Trouble Valley, filled with queries like: MOTHERS MAIDEN NAME__________________
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holding his wife’s hand in his own, the old merchant
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merchant, and there was plush furniture throughout
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merchant at his daughter
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he discovered she was wedded to the wealthiest merchant
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It seems she was waiting for an audience with her employer and happened into a conversation with a wealthy merchant of southern China, who was to meet with the Minister of Trade or some such
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Neither of their applications for audience came to anything that day, and she invited the merchant to tea and a continuance of their discussion
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The merchant outlined the tenets of the discipline and various verifications of its claims, adding as he did so that he himself was at liberty tell her what he knew of it, as he had declined the invitation to the 'path' when he was still young and very foolish
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’ Ducroix turned back to the wine merchant
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wine merchant, no less
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merchant was in grave peril
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by all means come in,’ said the merchant sarcastically,
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Captain Jones had worked his way up from the wharf to deckhand and then onto the merchant shipping line to eventually become a commissioned captain
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‘Did you know the merchant
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A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer, or merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stocks, which they have already acquired
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thief was caught trying to rob a visiting merchant at the
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a great company, or even a great merchant, has twenty or thirty ships at sea, they may, as it
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necessary for a great merchant, which nothing hinders him from becoming but the want of a
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therefore, are there more nearly upon a level with those of the wholesale merchant
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The speculative merchant exercises no
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He is a corn merchant this year,
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and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after
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war, when forty or fifty thousand sailors are forced from the merchant service into that of the
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king, the demand for sailors to merchant ships necessarily rises with their scarcity ; and their
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The operations of the speculative merchant are principally employed about
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It is everywhere much easier for a wealthy merchant to obtain the privilege
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"I heard he was a skilled merchant and a brave warrior
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It was then, among other proof to the same purpose, given in evidence by a Virginia merchant, that in March 1763, he had victualled his ships for twentyfour or twenty-five shillings the hundred weight of beef, which he considered as the ordinary price; whereas, in that dear year, he had paid twenty-seven shillings for the same weight and sort
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merchant in the western quarter of the city
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As a merchant they treated
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According to Mr Meggens {Postscript to the Universal Merchant p
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The great experience of this judicious merchant renders his opinion of considerable weight
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said the little merchant
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in Carcassonne and become a merchant
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But I’m going to be a merchant captain, not a soldier
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The capital of a merchant, for example, is altogether a circulating capital
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Fourthly, and lastly, of the work which is made up and completed, but which is still in the hands of the merchant and manufacturer, and not yet disposed of or distributed to the proper consumers; such as the finished work which we frequently find ready made in the shops of the smith, the cabinet-maker, the goldsmith, the jeweller, the china-merchant, etc
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The banker, who advances to the merchant whose bill he discounts, not gold and silver, but his own promissory notes, has the advantage of being able to discount to a greater amount by the whole value of his promissory notes, which he finds, by experience, are commonly in circulation
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By means of those cash accounts, every merchant can, without imprudence, carry on a greater trade than he otherwise could do
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in the same branch of trade, the Edinburgh merchant can, without imprudence,
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The merchant in Edinburgh, on the other hand, keeps no money unemployed for answering such occasional demands
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With the same stock, therefore, he can, without imprudence, have at all times in his warehouse a larger quantity of goods than the London merchant ; and can thereby both make a greater profit himself, and give constant employment to a greater number of industrious people who prepare those goods for the market
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When a bank discounts to a merchant a real bill of exchange, drawn by a real creditor upon a real debtor, and which, as soon as it becomes due, is really paid by that debtor ; it only advances to him a part of the value which he would otherwise be obliged to keep by him unemployed and in ready money, for answering occasional demands
50.
No, her only chance was to find a merchant ship about to leave the port
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Thus, not only the great landlord or the rich merchant, but even the common workman, if his wages are considerable, may maintain a menial servant; or he may sometimes go to a play or a puppet-show, and so contribute his share towards maintaining one set of unproductive labourers; or he may pay some taxes, and thus help to maintain another set, more honourable and useful, indeed, but equally unproductive
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The expense of a great lord feeds generally more idle than industrious people The rich merchant, though with his capital he maintains industrious people only, yet by his expense, that is, by the employment of his revenue, he feeds commonly the very same sort as the great lord
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the only buyer Mother could find was the baron’s nephew Laedron, a rich merchant of the port
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Unfortunately, the merchant Laedron was an early riser
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The capital of the merchant exchanges the surplus produce of one place for that of another, and thus encourages the industry, and increases the enjoyments of both
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The profits of the farmer, of the manufacturer, of the merchant, and retailer, are all drawn from the price of the goods which the two first produce, and the two last buy and sell
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The capital of the retailer replaces, together with its profits, that of the merchant of whom he purchases goods, and thereby enables him to continue his
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The capital of the wholesale merchant replaces, together with their profits, the capital's of the farmers and manufacturers of whom he purchases the rude and manufactured produce which he deals in, and thereby enables them to continue their respective trades
59.
It puts immediately into motion, therefore, a much greater quantity of productive labour, and adds a much greater value to the annual produce of the land and labour of the society, than an equal capital in the hands of any wholesale merchant
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The capital of a wholesale merchant, on the contrary, seems to have no fixed or necessary residence anywhere, but may wander about from place to place, according as it can either buy cheap or sell dear
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Whether the merchant whose capital exports the surplus produce of any society, be a native or a foreigner, is of very little importance
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It as effectually replaces the capital of the person who produces that surplus, and as effectually enables him to continue his business, the service by which the capital of a wholesale merchant chiefly contributes to support the productive labour, and to augment the value of the annual produce of the society to which he belongs
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When it sends out from the residence of the merchant a certain value of commodities, it generally brings hack in return at least an equal value of other commodities
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If the hemp and flax of Riga are purchased with the tobacco of Virginia, which had been purchased with British manufactures, the merchant must wait for the returns of two distinct foreign trades, before he can employ the same capital in repurchasing a like quantity of British manufactures
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If those two or three distinct foreign trades should happen to be carried on by two or three distinct merchants, of whom the second buys the goods imported by the first, and the third buys those imported by the second, in order to export them again, each merchant, indeed, will, in this case, receive the returns of his own capital more quickly ; but the final returns of the whole capital employed in the trade will be just as slow as ever
66.
Whether the whole capital employed in such a round about trade belong to one merchant or to three, can make no difference with regard to the country, though it may with regard to the particular merchants
67.
The capital of the Dutch merchant, which carries the corn of Poland to Portugal, and brings back the fruits and wines of Portugal to Poland, replaces by every such operation two capitals, neither of which had been employed in supporting the productive labour of Holland; but one of them in supporting that of Poland, and the other that of Portugal
68.
A Dutch merchant may, for example, employ his capital in transacting the commerce of Poland and Portugal, by carrying part of the surplus produce of the one to the other, not in Dutch, but in British bottoms
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As the capital of the landlord or farmer is more secure than that of the manufacturer, so the capital of the manufacturer, being at all times more within his view and command, is more secure than that of the foreign merchant
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A merchant is accustomed to employ his money chiefly in profitable projects ; whereas a mere country gentleman is accustomed to employ it chiefly in expense
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The merchant is commonly a bold, a country gentleman a timid undertaker
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The habits, besides, of order, economy, and attention, to which mercantile business naturally forms a merchant, render him much fitter to execute, with profit and success, any project of improvement
73.
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country
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But that when it imported to a greater value than it exported, a contrary balance became due to foreign nations, which was necessarily paid to them in the same manner, and thereby diminished that quantity : that in this case, to prohibit the exportation of those metals, could not prevent it, but only, by making it more dangerous, render it more expensive: that the exchange was thereby turned more against the country which owed the balance, than it otherwise might have been; the merchant who purchased a bill upon the foreign country being obliged to pay the banker who sold it, not only for the natural risk, trouble, and expense of sending the money thither, but for the extraordinary risk arising from the prohibition; but that the more the exchange was against any country, the more the balance of trade became necessarily against it; the money of that country becoming necessarily of so much less value, in comparison with that of the country to which the balance was due
75.
It is not because wealth consists more essentially in money than in goods, that the merchant finds it generally more easy to buy goods with money, than to buy money with goods ; but because money is the known and established instrument of commerce, for which every thing is readily given in exchange, but which is not always with equal readiness to be got in exchange for every thing
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But though a particular merchant, with abundance of goods in his warehouse, may sometimes be ruined by not being able to sell them in time, a nation or country is not liable to the same accident, The whole capital of a merchant frequently consists in perishable goods destined for purchasing money
77.
“I could travel with a merchant caravan going in that direction, couldn’t I?” she asked, knowing that she would never be allowed to go alone
78.
When the government, or those who acted under them, contracted with a merchant for a remittance to some foreign country, he would naturally endeavour to pay his foreign correspondent, upon whom he granted a bill, by sending abroad rather commodities than gold and silver
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A considerable part of the annual surplus of its manufactures must, indeed, in this case, be exported without bringing back any returns to the country, though it does to the merchant ; the government purchasing of the merchant his bills upon foreign countries, in order to purchase there the pay and provisions of an army
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They all derive great benefit from it, though that in which the merchant resides generally derives the greatest, as he is generally more employed in supplying the wants, and carrying out the superfluities of his own, than of any other particular country
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merchant naturally prefers the home trade to the foreign trade of consumption, and the foreign trade of consumption to the carrying trade
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In the carrying trade, the capital of the merchant is, as it
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The merchant, in order to save a second loading and unloading, endeavours always to sell in the home market, as much of the goods of all those different countries as he can; and thus, so far as he can, to convert his carrying trade into a foreign trade of consumption
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A merchant, in the same manner, who is engaged in the foreign trade of consumption, when he collects goods for foreign markets, will always be glad, upon equal or nearly equal profits, to sell as great a part of them at home as he can
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The interest of a nation, in its commercial relations to foreign nations, is, like that of a merchant with regard to the different people with whom he deals, to buy as cheap, and to sell as dear as possible
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But he’d heard many descriptions from merchant captains
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fascinated with the scales, as the spice merchant weighed out grains of pepper
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The greater part of the seamen, it is probable, gradually betook themselves to the merchant service as they could find occasion, and in the mean time both they and the soldiers were absorbed in the great mass of the people, and employed in a great variety of occupations
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The number of vagrants was scarce anywhere sensibly increased by it ; even the wages of labour were not reduced by it in any occupation, so far as I have been able to learn, except in that of seamen in the merchant service
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The wool merchant Leptos hailed her as she approached
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Every merchant, in consequence of this regulation, was obliged to keep an account with the bank, in order to pay his foreign bills of exchange, which necessarily occasioned a certain demand for bank money
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As a merchant, who has £110,000 worth of wine in his cellar, is a richer man than he who has only £100,000 worth of tobacco in his warehouse, so is he likewise a richer man than he who has only £100,000 worth of gold in his coffers
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Homer’s mother Leucania was a celebrated beauty, daughter of a wealthy merchant
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To allow the merchant to draw back upon exportation, either the whole, or a part of whatever excise or inland duty is imposed upon domestic industry, can never occasion the exportation of a greater quantity of goods than what would have been exported had no duty been imposed
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By the second of the rules, annexed to the act of parliament, which imposed what is now called the old subsidy, every merchant, whether English or alien
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was allowed to draw back half that duty upon exportation ; the English merchant, provided the exportation took place within twelve months; the alien, provided it took place within nine months
97.
It was a good thing, because sailors from the merchant vessel
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But every branch of trade in which the merchant can sell his goods for a price which replaces to him, with the ordinary profits of stock, the whole capital employed in preparing and sending them to market, can be carried on without a bounty
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Those trades only require bounties, in which the merchant is obliged to sell his goods for a price which does not replace to him his capital, together with the ordinary profit, or in which he is obliged to sell them for less than it really cost him to send them to market
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But if the bounty did not repay to the merchant what he would otherwise lose upon the price of his goods, his own interest would soon oblige him to employ his stock in another way, or to find out a trade in which the price of the goods would replace to him, with the ordinary profit, the capital employed in sending them to market
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The same merchants are selling the same goods before and after the fad
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Having this capability separates the ho hum Internet merchants from the ones that really make the cash register ring
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They hadn't declared themselves a tribe to the Gengee City Merchants Association either, but a few of them were members in good standing because of their businesses
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Artificially inflating demand was not considered an acceptable business practice in this culture, and people did not patronize merchants who engaged in 'push' advertising
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Around her home there had come the houses of merchants and bankers, followed by the lowlier dwellings of middle class managers and finally there came the estate houses of the common workers
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Tarak asked Mistress Sera to show Rayne around the Hold and introduce her to the many merchants and their shops
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Around her home there had come the houses of merchants
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meats and several fish merchants, each competing with the others to
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Allcock made a grand announcement that his pursuit of New York City merchants for his tackle merchandise had at last yielded some success---thanks in large part to Harry
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They took a short sailing trip one day when the tide was high, to Tombelaine and back, imagining as they voyaged how merchants in ships of yore must have felt as they approached the island and the fortress it once was
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It had not been lost on any of that powerful cadre of merchants and proprietors comprising the Village Council that Lawrence Spelman was a man of extraordinarily deep pockets, with international contacts and connections, and most eye-opening to them, he was the close friend and confidant to George and Belle Livingson
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merchants of Tarshish and all her
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merchants and services catering for the King and his
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A public mourning raises the price of black cloth ( with which the market is almost always understocked upon such occasions), and augments the profits of the merchants who possess any considerable quantity of it
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It sinks the price of coloured silks and cloths, and thereby reduces the profits of the merchants who have any considerable quantity of them upon hand
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merchants from the colonial times
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It was probably used by roving merchants from other parts of the city that just wanted some rest and relief without the long climb to better quarters
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When the stocks of many rich merchants are turned into the same trade, their mutual competition naturally tends to lower its profit; and when there is a like increase of stock in all the different trades carried on in the same society, the same competition must produce the same effect in them all
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trade, I have been assured by British merchants who had traded in both countries, are higher
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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays, though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before
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Double interest is in Great Britain reckoned what the merchants call a good, moderate, reasonable profit; terms which, I apprehend, mean no more than a common and usual profit
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merchants who employ them
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alien merchants, all tend to the same purpose
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Born to a long line of wealthy merchants, a family tree steeped with riches, Brice had spent his childhood surrounded in luxury
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In ancient times, too, it was usual to attempt to regulate the profits of merchants and other
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We see frequently societies of merchants in London, and other trading towns, purchase waste lands in our sugar colonies, which they expect to improve and cultivate with profit, by means of factors and agents, notwithstanding the great distance and the uncertain returns, from the defective administration of justice in those countries
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I have never even heard of any tobacco plantation that was improved and cultivated by the capital of merchants who resided in Great Britain; and our tobacco colonies send us home no such wealthy planters as we see frequently arrive from our sugar islands
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saddler’s stall, from the man cooking chunks of roasted kid over a brazier, from the shops of potters, mercers, armorers, chandlers, lamp merchants, apothecaries, and many more
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comfortably and watched the merchants dismantling their
30.
It was not then the policy of Europe to restrain, by high duties, the importation of foreign manufactures, but rather to encourage it, in order that merchants might be enabled to supply, at as easy a rate as possible, the great men with the conveniencies and luxuries which they wanted, and which the industry of their own country could not afford them
31.
Merchants and master manufacturers are, in this order, the two classes of people who commonly employ the largest capitals, and who by their wealth draw to themselves the greatest share of the public consideration
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All merchants, therefore, and almost all men of business, find it convenient to keep such cash accounts with them, and are thereby interested to promote the trade of those companies, by readily receiving their notes in all payments, and by encouraging all those with whom they have any influence to do the same
33.
These the merchants pay away to the manufacturers for goods, the manufacturers to the farmers for materials and provisions, the farmers to their landlords for rent; the landlords repay them to the merchants for the conveniencies and luxuries with which they supply them, and the merchants again return them to the banks, in order to balance their cash accounts, or to replace what they my have borrowed of them ; and thus almost the whole money business of the country is transacted by means of them
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If there are two merchants, one in London and the other in Edinburgh, who employ equal stocks
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The customs of merchants, which were established when the barbarous laws of Europe did not enforce the performance of their contracts, and which, during the course of the two last centuries, have been adopted into the laws of all European nations, have given such extraordinary privileges to bills of exchange, that money is more readily advanced upon them than upon any other species of obligation; especially when they are made payable within so short a period as two or three months after their date
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The Greeks, more merchants but buyers
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Although the merchants are not in strike, the
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Merchants brought in stocks from Cyrenaica and Egypt, but only the rich could afford to eat bread now
39.
In the first way are employed the capitals of all those who undertake improvement or cultivation of lands, mines, or fisheries; in the second, those of all master manufacturers ; in the third, those of all wholesale merchants; and in the fourth, those of all retailers
40.
The merchants who export it, replace the capitals of the people who produce it, and thereby encourage them to continue the production ; and the British manufacturers replace the capitals of those merchants
41.
If there are any merchants among them, they are, properly, only the agents of wealthier merchants who reside in some of the great commercial cities
42.
The greater part, both of the exportation and coasting trade of America, is carried on by the capitals of merchants who reside in Great Britain
43.
Even the stores and warehouses from which goods are retailed in some provinces, particularly in Virginia and Maryland, belong many of them to merchants who reside in the mother country, and afford one of the few instances of the retail trade of a society being carried on by the capitals of those who are not resident members of it
44.
If those two or three distinct foreign trades should happen to be carried on by two or three distinct merchants, of whom the second buys the goods imported by the first, and the third buys those imported by the second, in order to export them again, each merchant, indeed, will, in this case, receive the returns of his own capital more quickly ; but the final returns of the whole capital employed in the trade will be just as slow as ever
45.
Whether the whole capital employed in such a round about trade belong to one merchant or to three, can make no difference with regard to the country, though it may with regard to the particular merchants
46.
The trade which is carried on in British bottoms between the different ports of the Mediterranean, and some trade of the same kind carried on by British merchants between the different ports of India, make, perhaps, the principal branches of what is properly the carrying trade of Great Britain
47.
He slowly made his way near the marketplace, glancing at his fellow merchants languishing in their boredom
48.
With the collaboration agreed upon he would make his way back to his stall, only to have the young woman eventually make her way to it after inspecting the wares hawked by the other merchants
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It was a favorite tactic of merchants in Cyrodiil, particularly the Imperial City
50.
Through the greater part of Europe, the yeomanry are regarded as an inferior rank of people, even to the better sort of tradesmen and mechanics, and in all parts of Europe to the great merchants and master manufacturers
51.
But when this taste became so general as to occasion a considerable demand, the merchants, in order to save the expense of carriage, naturally endeavoured to establish some manufactures of the same kind in their own country
52.
Sometimes they have been introduced in the manner above mentioned, by the violent operation, if one may say so, of the stocks of particular merchants and undertakers, who established them in imitation of some foreign manufactures of the same kind
53.
Merchants are commonly ambitious of becoming country gentlemen, and, when they do, they are generally the best of all improvers
54.
Whoever has had the fortune to live in a mercantile town, situated in an unimproved country, must have frequently observed how much more spirited the operations of merchants were in this way, than those of mere country gentlemen
55.
By the removal of the unnecessary mouths, and by exacting from the farmer the full value of the farm, a greater surplus, or, what is the same thing, the price of a greater surplus, was obtained for the proprietor, which the merchants and manufacturers soon furnished him with a method of spending upon his own person, in the same manner as he had done the rest
56.
When those countries became commercial, the merchants found this prohibition, upon many occasions, extremely inconvenient
57.
That high price, indeed, was extremely disadvantageous to the merchants who had any money to pay in foreign countries
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The high price of exchange, too, would naturally dispose the merchants to endeavour to make their exports nearly balance their imports, in order that they might have this high exchange to pay upon as small a sum as possible
59.
They were addressed by merchants to parliaments and to the councils of princes, to nobles, and to country gentlemen; by those who were supposed to understand trade, to those who were conscious to them selves that they knew nothing about the matter
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That foreign trade enriched the country, experience demonstrated to the nobles and country gentlemen, as well as to the merchants ; but how, or in what manner, none of them well knew
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The merchants knew perfectly in what manner it enriched themselves, it was their business to know it
62.
He felt like joining a caravan of merchants to Arabia to go and visit her, just to get away from this place for a while
63.
By advantageous treaties of commerce, particular privileges were procured in some foreign state for the goods and merchants of the country, beyond what were granted to those of other countries
64.
By the establishment of colonies in distant countries, not only particular privileges, but a monopoly was frequently procured for the goods and merchants of the country which established them
65.
It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it
66.
" Country gentlemen and farmers, dispersed in different parts of the country, cannot so easily combine as merchants and manufacturers, who being collected into towns, and accustomed to that exclusive corporation spirit which prevails in them, naturally endeavour to obtain, against all their countrymen, the same exclusive privilege which they generally possess against the inhabitants of their respective towns
67.
In Great Britain, when any such tax is laid upon the produce of domestic industry, it is usual, at the same time, in order to stop the clamorous complaints of our merchants and manufacturers, that they will be undersold at home, to lay a much heavier duty upon the importation of all foreign goods of the same kind
68.
In this consisted a great part of the policy of Mr Colbert, who, notwithstanding his great abilities, seems in this case to have been imposed upon by the sophistry of merchants and manufacturers, who are always demanding a monopoly against their countrymen
69.
If it is usual, for example, for the merchants of England to pay for the goods which they buy of Hamburg, Dantzic, Riga, etc
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disadvantageous exchange must have subjected their merchants, such small states, when they began to attend to the interest of trade, have frequently enacted that foreign bills of exchange of a certain value should be paid, not in common currency, but by an order upon, or by a transfer in the books of a certain bank, established upon the credit, and under the protection of the state, this bank being always obliged to pay, in good and true money, exactly according to the standard of the state
71.
Its object was to relieve the merchants from the inconvenience of a disadvantageous exchange
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The capricious ambition of kings and ministers has not, during the present and the preceding century, been more fatal to the repose of Europe, than the impertinent jealousy of merchants and manufacturers
73.
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy : but the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit, of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind, though it cannot, perhaps, be corrected, may very easily be prevented from disturbing the tranquillity of anybody but themselves
74.
The proposition is so very manifest, that it seems ridiculous to take any pains to prove it ; nor could it ever have been called in question, had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind
75.
As it is the interest of the freemen of a corporation to hinder the rest of the inhabitants from employing any workmen but themselves; so it is the interest of the merchants and manufacturers of every country to secure to themselves the monopoly of the home market
76.
Hence, in Great Britain, and in most other European countries, the extraordinary duties upon almost all goods imported by alien merchants
77.
They are both rich and industrious nations; and the merchants and manufacturers of each dread the competition of the skill and activity of those of the other
78.
These reasons, however, will justify drawbacks only upon exporting goods to those countries which are altogether foreign and independent, not to those in which our merchants and manufacturers enjoy a monopoly
79.
By means of the monopoly which our merchants and manufacturers enjoy there, the same quantity might frequently, perhaps, be sent thither, though the whole duties were retained
80.
By means of them, our merchants and manufacturers, it is pretended, will be enabled to sell their goods as cheap or cheaper than their rivals in the foreign market
81.
He imagined they would be lone merchants or perhaps farmers, locals simply passing through
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These were the corn merchants, the exporters and importers of corn
83.
When our country gentlemen, therefore, demanded the establishment of the bounty, though they acted in imitation of our merchants and manufacturers, they did not act with that complete comprehension of their own interest, which commonly directs the conduct of those two other orders of people
84.
But it is not the interest of merchants and manufacturers, the great inventors of all these expedients, that the home market should be overstocked with their goods; an event which a bounty upon production might sometimes occasion
85.
Were it possible, indeed, for one great company of merchants to possess themselves of the whole crop of an extensive country, it might perhaps be their interest to deal with it, as the Dutch are said to do with the spiceries of the Moluccas, to destroy or throw away a considerable part of it, in order to keep up the price of the rest
86.
An intercourse of the same kind universally established between the farmers and the corn merchants, would be attended with effects equally beneficial to the farmers
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advantageous, because the merchants of the favoured country, enjoying a sort of monopoly there, will often sell their goods for a better price than if exposed to the free competition of all other nations
88.
Such treaties, however, though they may be advantageous to the merchants and manufacturers of the favoured, are necessarily disadvantageous to those of the favouring country
89.
Our merchants were, some years ago, out of humour with the crown of Portugal
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A land of merchants and unending architecture
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The loss of the Portugal trade would, no doubt, have occasioned a considerable embarrassment to the merchants at that time engaged in it, who might not, perhaps, have found out, for a year or two, any other equally advantageous method of employing their capitals; and in this would probably have consisted all the inconveniency which England could have suffered from this notable piece of commercial policy
92.
As he sat observing the harbor, the tones of surly sailors and cynical merchants rode the breeze as strangely reso-nant whispers
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The merchants manned their stalls with obvious boredom, but held out hope for a cloaked figure which had perused their wares for a few minutes despite the threats from the clouds
94.
The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever
95.
But as all the different merchants, who joined their stocks in order to fit out those licensed vessels, would find it for their interest to act in concert, the trade which was carried on in this manner would necessarily be conducted very nearly upon the same principles as that of an exclusive company
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The profit of those merchants would be almost equally exorbitant and oppressive
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By confining them to the home market, our merchants, it was expected, would not only be enabled to buy them cheaper in the plantations, and consequently to sell them with a better profit at home, but to establish between the plantations and foreign countries an advantageous carrying trade, of which Great Britain was necessarily to be the centre or emporium, as the European country into which those commodities were first to be imported
98.
The more advanced or more refined manufactures, even of the colony produce, the merchants and manufacturers of Great Britain chuse to reserve to themselves, and have prevailed upon the legislature to prevent their establishment in the colonies, sometimes by high duties, and sometimes by absolute prohibitions
99.
She will not suffer her colonies to work in those more refined manufactures, even for their own consumption ; but insists upon their purchasing of her merchants and manufacturers all goods of this kind which they have occasion for
100.
In their present state of improvement, those prohibitions, perhaps, without cramping their industry, or restraining it from any employment to which it would have gone of its own accord, are only impertinent badges of slavery imposed upon them, without any sufficient reason, by the groundless jealousy of the merchants and manufacturers of the mother country
