 | Elias Voster - 1774 - 296 pages
...Trade the inexauftible fund of all funds, and upon which all the reft depend ? Trade is the readied way for Men to raife their fortunes and families; and therefore it is a field for men of figure and of good families to enter upon. By Trade we muft be underftoo'd'to include Navigation, and foreign... | |
 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1805 - 598 pages
...trade in this kingdom a mean employment ; it is, on the contrary, the readiest way for men to raise their fortunes and families, and therefore it is a field for men of figure and distinction to enter upon *." Here, however, we cannot avoid a few strictures, upon those persons who... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 356 pages
...thing the men can turn their hand to ; but, on the contrary, trade is the readiest way for men to raise their fortunes and families ; and therefore it is a field for men of figure and of good families to enter upon. NB By trade we must be understood to include navigation and foreign... | |
 | Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power - Agriculture - 1941 - 776 pages
...thing that men can turn their hand to: but, on the contrary, trade is the readiest way for men to raise their fortunes and families; and therefore it is a field for men of figure and of good families to enter upon. English commercial enterprise therefore benefited more than that of... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 330 pages
...thing the men can turn their hand to; but, on the contrary, trade is the readiest way for men to raise their fortunes and families; and therefore it is a field for men of figure and of good families to enter upon" (Complete English Tradesman, chap. 22, 213). 14. This number was penned... | |
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England, as it generally is in other countries, the meanest thing the men can turn their hand to; but, on the contrary, trade is the readiest way for men to raise their fortunes and families; and therefore it is a field for men of figure and of good families... 