The Complete English Tradesman, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1841 - 323 oldal |
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12. oldal
... month I received my fortune , which by father's will had been my due two years past , at which time I arrived to man's estate , and became major ; whereupon I have taken a house in one of the principal streets of this town , where I am ...
... month I received my fortune , which by father's will had been my due two years past , at which time I arrived to man's estate , and became major ; whereupon I have taken a house in one of the principal streets of this town , where I am ...
16. oldal
... the same to be delivered here any time in February next , I shall take them at the same price which I gave you for the last ; and one month after the delivery you may draw upon me for the money , which shall be 16 THE COMPLETE.
... the same to be delivered here any time in February next , I shall take them at the same price which I gave you for the last ; and one month after the delivery you may draw upon me for the money , which shall be 16 THE COMPLETE.
18. oldal
... month after the rest are sent in , he draws for the remainder , and his bills are punctually paid . The consequence of this exact writing and answering is , that the warehouse- keeper obliges the merchant from whom he has the order ...
... month after the rest are sent in , he draws for the remainder , and his bills are punctually paid . The consequence of this exact writing and answering is , that the warehouse- keeper obliges the merchant from whom he has the order ...
37. oldal
... months he will take eight or nine in the payment , he considers it in the price , and uses him accordingly , and this im- pairs his gain ; so that loss of credit is indeed loss of money , and this weakens him both ways . A tradesman ...
... months he will take eight or nine in the payment , he considers it in the price , and uses him accordingly , and this im- pairs his gain ; so that loss of credit is indeed loss of money , and this weakens him both ways . A tradesman ...
39. oldal
... months time of payment , as another man shall with ready money , and in goods which are ordinarily sold for time , as all our manufactures , the bay - trade ex- cepted , generally are . He then that keeps his credit unshaken , has a ...
... months time of payment , as another man shall with ready money , and in goods which are ordinarily sold for time , as all our manufactures , the bay - trade ex- cepted , generally are . He then that keeps his credit unshaken , has a ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
158. oldal - 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.
63. oldal - ... 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.
64. oldal - ... 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...
62. oldal - ... 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...
243. oldal - 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.
62. oldal - 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...
21. oldal - 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...
244. oldal - 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...
244. oldal - 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...
64. oldal - 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.