 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...  The Spectator, no. 1-314 - Страница 115по Joseph Addison - 1837Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | D. C. Coleman, Donald Cuthbert Coleman, Peter Mathias - 2006 - 308 страници
...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... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 страници
...Addison's contemporary celebration of the merchant class as most useful members of the commonwealth: They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse...the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great. Our English Merchant converts the tin of his own country into Gold, and exchanges his Wooll for Rubies. The Mahometans... | |
 | Richard T. Gray - 1995 - 418 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 страници
...Britain, at the same time that our Palates are feasted with Fruits that rise between the Tropicks. s liberty is maintained and exercised in a way of...her lord, and she is to be subject to him, yet in a Merchant converts the Tin of his own Country into Gold, and exchanges his Wooll for Rubies. The Mahometans... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - 1998 - 330 страници
...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... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 страници
...The Fleece is the most elaborate account of this centrality. Thus Addison on merchants: "They knot mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good Offices,...the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great. Our English Merchant converts the tin of his own country in to Gold, and exchanges his Wooll for Rubies. The Mahometans... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 страници
...almost the first (and last) time, the trading classes got a good press. Merchants, beamed Addison, 'knit Mankind together in a mutual Intercourse of...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great'. l2 But if this market society was to flourish, it evidently needed credible analyses of and apologetics... | |
 | Laura Brown - 2001 - 292 страници
...papers: Dépendance upon one another, and be united together by their common Interest.... [Merchants] knit Mankind together in a mutual Intercourse of good...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great. 30 But these ideas are probably most eloquently expounded in George Lillo's tragedy, The London Merchant... | |
 | Ilse Vickers - 2006 - 224 страници
...different regions of the world, with an eye to this mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind . . . there are not more useful members in a commonwealth...distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.' And see the helpful article by Sawday 1983.... | |
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