 | 1926 - 434 pages
...what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with everything that is convenient and ornamental. For these reasons there are not more useful members...together in a mutual intercourse of good offices. . . . Special attention is devoted by Mr. Selfridge to the fairs that in former days played a very... | |
 | Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn (bart.) - 1928 - 88 pages
...what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with everything that is convenient and ornamental. For these reasons there are not more useful members...wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great." But Addison was talking of a trade that differed less in its essentials from the trade of 5,000 years... | |
 | Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn (bart.) - 1928 - 88 pages
...what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with everything that is convenient and ornamental. For these reasons there are not more useful members...distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, add wealtli to the rich, and magnificence to the great." But Addispn was talking of a trade that differed... | |
 | Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power - 1941 - 776 pages
...what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with everything that is convenient and ornamental. For these reasons there are not more useful members...wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great. The words are Addison's. He goes on : Our ships are laden with spices and oils and wines; our rooms... | |
 | Doris Feldmann - 1983 - 264 pages
...in der von J. Addison und R. Steele herausgegebenen Zeitschrift The Spectator; ". . . there are no more useful Members in a Commonwealth than Merchants....Nature, find Work for the Poor, add Wealth to the Rieh, and Magnificence to the Great." (J. Addison und R. Steele, The Spectator [1711 1712, 1714], hrsg.... | |
 | D. C. Coleman, Donald Cuthbert Coleman, Peter Mathias - 2006 - 308 pages
...1711 Addison can be heard eulogizing merchants as the most useful members of the commonwealth because they 'knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse...poor, add wealth to the rich and magnificence to the great'.47 And in George Lillo's play The London Merchant, a moral tale which ran to packed houses in... | |
 | Richard T. Gray - 1995 - 418 pages
...the merchant at the inception of bourgeois mercantile capitalism in the following way. "[Merchants] knit Mankind together in a mutual Intercourse of good...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great." 36 According to this definition, the merchant has a variety of significant functions in society: as... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1996 - 756 pages
...papers. "Sloth," Addison gravely tells his readers, "has ruin'd more Nations than the Sword"; and again: "There are not more useful Members in a Commonwealth...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great." These mercantile statesmen-philanthropists, it would seem, did everything but make money for themselves.3... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - 1998 - 330 pages
...represents all nations as "naturally" profiting from those British merchants who, like beneficent fathers, "knit Mankind together in a mutual Intercourse of...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great." Effecting a democracy of expenditure in which all men are created equal through their ability to purchase... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 pages
...Spectator, no. 69 (1711), "knit Mankind together in a mutual Intercourse of good Offices, distribute Gifts of Nature, find Work for the Poor, add Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great." These sentiments, alien to the earlier theatrical culture, are echoed in Richard Steele's The Conscious... | |
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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, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence... 
