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The Shopkeeper's Guide: Designed to Give Stability to the Interests of the ... Robert Kemp Philp No preview available - 2008 |
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Aldermanbury Aldgate ball Bermondsey bill of exchange Bishopsgate Black Blackfriars Blackfriars-road Borough bottles Boxes Brown Brushes Cannon-street cantharides Cent Charles Cheapside Church-street City City-road Clerken Clerkenwell Coloured ditto ditto drams drawer Eastcheap Edward Fancy Fenchurch-street Finsbury Fleet-street Frank Fulton George George-street Ginger Gresham-street Hair Henry High Holborn High-street Houndsditch Hoxton indorsement interest iron Islington James Jane John John-street Joseph kind King-street Knives labour lady Lambeth ledger Lemon Little Britain Luke's maker MANUFACTURERS merchant Minories Miss Newgate-street Noble-street Norton Folgate otto of roses ounce Oxford-street paper partnership party Patent Paternoster-row payment person pound Powder purchase Queen-street Regent-street rent Richard road Robert Rose Samuel Satin Shakspere shopkeeper Shoreditch Silk Smith Soho Southwark Spitalfields square Strand street sugar Thomas Tower-street trade uncle Joshua Union-street Upper Thames-street White Whitechapel wholesale William William-street Wood-street
Popular passages
Page 189 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Page 175 - ... they are flushed all over with the rich lights of fancy; and so coloured and bestrewn with the flowers of poetry, that even while perplexed and bewildered in their labyrinths, it is impossible to resist the intoxication of their sweetness, or to shut our hearts to the enchantments they so lavishly present.
Page 120 - Insurance, or other Instrument, by whatever Name the same shall be called, whereby any Insurance shall be made upon any Life or Lives...
Page 175 - We are very much inclined indeed to add, that we do not know any book which we would sooner employ as a test to ascertain whether any one had in him a native relish for poetry, and a genuine sensibility to its intrinsic charm.
Page 56 - Secondly, the wages of labour vary with the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning the business. When any expensive machine is erected, the extraordinary work to be performed by it before it is worn out, it must be expected, will replace the capital laid out upon it, with at least the ordinary profits. A man educated at the expense ; of much labour and time...
Page 119 - Plantations, a duty of six pence for every twenty shillings, in any sum not exceeding fifty pounds sterling money, which shall be given, paid, contracted, or agreed for, with or in relation to any clerk or apprentice, which shall be put or placed to or with any master or mistress, to learn any profession, trade, or employment.
Page 149 - A voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor and skill or some or all of them in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that there shall be a communion of the profits thereof between them.
Page 39 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Page 109 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Page 189 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.