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... profit of fitting out and employing such a number of ships and seamen . " Let honest Peter Buckram , who has long , without suc- cess , been a searcher after hidden money , reflect on this , and be reclaimed from that unaccountable ...
... profit of fitting out and employing such a number of ships and seamen . " Let honest Peter Buckram , who has long , without suc- cess , been a searcher after hidden money , reflect on this , and be reclaimed from that unaccountable ...
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... profit and loss , whether he goes for- ward or backward , grows richer or poorer . Neither is this science only useful to the merchant , but is reckoned the primum mobile or first mover of all mundane affairs in general ; and is useful ...
... profit and loss , whether he goes for- ward or backward , grows richer or poorer . Neither is this science only useful to the merchant , but is reckoned the primum mobile or first mover of all mundane affairs in general ; and is useful ...
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... last collected and di- gested in the above general preface , which his countrymen read with much avidity and profit . VOL . 1 . E pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . 73.
... last collected and di- gested in the above general preface , which his countrymen read with much avidity and profit . VOL . 1 . E pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . 73.
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... calling hath an office of profit and honour , ' as poor Richard says : but then the trade must be worked at , and the calling well followed , or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . 75.
... calling hath an office of profit and honour , ' as poor Richard says : but then the trade must be worked at , and the calling well followed , or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . 75.
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... profit will be as great as mine . I am , as ever , thine to serve thee , RICHARD Saunders . NECESSARY HINTS TO THOSE THAT WOULD BE RICH . Written anno 1736 . THE use of money is all the advantage there is in having money . For six ...
... profit will be as great as mine . I am , as ever , thine to serve thee , RICHARD Saunders . NECESSARY HINTS TO THOSE THAT WOULD BE RICH . Written anno 1736 . THE use of money is all the advantage there is in having money . For six ...
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Page 74 - God helps them that help themselves,' as poor Richard says. " I. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service: but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth, by bringing on
Page 74 - stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected, at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain clean old man, with white locks,
Page 101 - filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I met by the way in the bands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for
Page 103 - improvement of the mind or of his fortune, to mere corporeal sensations, and ruining his health in their pursuit, " Mistaken man," says I, " you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure : you give too much for your whistle." If I see one fond of appearance, of fine clothes,
Page 19 - of the value of lace. . The importer may demand forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings for that which cost him but twenty. 12. Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours : this is
Page 81 - Would you not say, that you were free, have a right to dress as you please, and that such an edict would be a breach of your privileges, and such a government tyrannical ? And yet you are about to put yourself under that tyranny, when you run in
Page 113 - and you must be of my opinion. If they met so often to learn good things, they would certainly have learned some before this time. But they are still ignorant. You know our practice. If a white man, in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you
Page 77 - II. But with our industry we must likewise be steady, settled, and careful, and oversee our own affairs with our own eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as poor Richard says, ' I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet
Page 107 - We are convinced, therefore, that you mean to do us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you, who are wise, must know that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if
Page 19 - The second by commerce,which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as a reward for his innocent life, and his virtuous industry. B. FRANKLIN.