TradeBenn, 1928 - 80 pages |
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Trade in. Lehrbuch: English for wholesale, Export and Import Professionals Sally Vollmers No preview available - 2006 |
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Page 9 - Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth. We repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens ; the spice-islands, our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters.
Page 10 - For these reasons, there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
Page 9 - ... that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is it the least part of this our happiness, that whilst we enjoy the remotest products of the north and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which...
Page 18 - ... arrives with unfailing regularity, so that all but an infinitesimal fraction of them would be extremely surprised if they did not find their breakfast ready to hand. To prepare it they use coal which has been dug from great depths hundreds of miles away in the Midlands or Durham; in consuming it they eat and drink products which have come from Wiltshire, Jamaica, Dakota, or China with no more thought than an infant consuming its mother's milk. It is clear that there is in existence some machinery,...
Page 18 - I undertake to prove its practical usefulness in the*di8cusaion of required three generations and three great writers to elaborate in the form in -which we know it. Or he will ask them to consider the daily feeding of London. There are, he will point out, six millions of people in and about London, so closely packed together that they cannot grow anything for their own consumption, and yet every morning their food arrives with unfailing regularity, so that all but an infinitesimal fraction of them...
Page 34 - To conclude this part of the evidence, we find undoubtedly that in longer life, in increased consumption of the chief commodities they use, in better education, in greater freedom from crime and pauperism, and in increased savings, the masses of the people are better, immensely better, than they were fifty years ago. This is quite consistent with the fact, which we all lament, that there is a residuum still unimproved...
Page 79 - Bill that ever passed the Houses of Parliament.' Socrates said, 'Let him that would move the world move first himself.' Or, as the old rhyme runs: If every one would see To his own reformation, How very easily You might reform a nation.
Page 76 - Americans understand that the selling of an article is often as difficult as the making of it that they are able to indulge in the habit of mass production and develop their trade and their standard of living in the wonderful way with which we are familiar to-day.
Page 13 - M. C. Buer's Health, Wealth and Population in the Early Days of the Industrial Revolution (London, 1926).
Page 55 - ... troubles are due to our confusion of trade with politics, and our unnatural attempts to put the producer in a superior position to the consumer. He illustrates our departure from sanity by our railway policy, and predicts that the breakdown of the railways will be the next big industrial crisis. " We must stand in the market-place to be hired, or, alternatively, we must stand in queues at the shop door to be rationed.