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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... "
London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis ... - Page 8
by David Hughson - 1805
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Arithmetic, in Whole and Broken Numbers, Digested After a New Method and ...

Elias Voster - 1774 - 296 pages
...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...
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Arithmetic in Whole and Broken Numbers: Digested After a New Method, and ...

Elias Voster - Business mathematics - 1792 - 296 pages
...ineyhauftible Fund of all Funds, and, upon which the Reft depend V Trade is<the readiefti Way for Men to raife their Fortunes and Families ; and therefore it is a Field- for Men of Figure and good Families to enter uponr By Trade.we n«*$ be. uudetftood to include Navigation, and Foreign DJfcc;veries,...
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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 2

David Hughson - London (England) - 1805 - 590 pages
...not as in other countries, always of the meanest of the people, nor is trade in this kingdom a mean y employment; it is, on the contrary, the readiest way...their fortunes and families, and therefore it is a Held for men of figure and distinction to enter upon *." Here, however, we cannot avoid a few strictures,...
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The Complete English Tradesman, Volume 1

Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 356 pages
...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...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...
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The Cambridge Economic History of Europe: From the Decline of the ..., Volume 4

Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power - Agriculture - 1941 - 776 pages
...other countries, the meanest thing that men can turn their hand to: but, on the contrary, trade is the readiest way for men to raise their fortunes and...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...
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Proposing Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century ...

Shawn L. Maurer - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 330 pages
...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...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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The Spirit of Capitalism

Liah Greenfeld - Social Science - 2009 - 566 pages
...countries, the meanest thing the men can turn their hand to." Rather, it was a magnet for talent, "being the readiest way for men to raise their fortunes and families; and therefore ... a field for men of figure and of good families to enter upon." In thus stressing what "value we...
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