Trade and Letters: Their Journeyings Round the World. Three Discources, Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco, and Published at the Request of the AssociationR. Carter & brothers, 1856 - 168 pages |
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Page 158 - So that, beside the improvements which they receive from knowledge and the liberal arts, it is impossible but they must feel an increase of humanity, from the very habit of conversing together, and contributing to each other's pleasure and entertainment. 289 Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together by an indissoluble chain...
Page 158 - The more these refined arts advance, the more sociable men become: nor is it possible, that, when enriched with science, and possessed of a fund of conversation, they should be contented to remain in solitude, or live with their fellow-citizens in that distant manner, which is peculiar to ignorant and barbarous nations. They flock into cities; love to receive and communicate knowledge; to show their wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture.
Page 33 - ... of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark ; no fire to waste them, and no ray to enlighten, they assimilate and coalesce with those qualities so congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanency in the union with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Nor indeed, my Lords, except where the interest of millions can be affected by the folly or the vice of an individual...
Page 32 - Providence that all human affairs should sometimes fluctuate ; and as such, they had been found at once a protection to the people and a security to the crown; My lords, it is by the salutary repulsion of popular privilege that the power of the monarchy is supported in its sphere. Withdraw that support and it falls in ruin upon the people, but it falls in a ruin...
Page 107 - There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory— when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption,— barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Page 59 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
Page 20 - And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass.
Page 70 - ... whosoever therefore purposeth to go on pilgrimage therein, let him not know a woman, nor transgress, nor quarrel in the pilgrimage. The good which ye do, God knoweth it. Make provision for your journey ; but the best provision is piety : and fear me, O ye of understanding. It shall be no crime in you, if ye seek an increase from your Lord, by trading during the pilgrimage.
Page 41 - Foreign commerce is still another thing. It consists in the exchange of the products of one country for those of another. The merchant wants plenty of ships to carry all the goods at the lowest possible freights, but it is of no importance to him where the ships were built, or who owns and sails them. A statement and definition of these three industries suffices to show what confusion must arise in any discussion in which...
Page 50 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes