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Alderman AMBASSADORS OF COMMERCE amount appointment asked Asso association beneath the sky Benevolent Institution better Branch buyer called Charles Dickens Cheapside Cobden colonial traveller commercial room commercial traveller day's decent fellow dinner draper drink Duke of Cambridge employers favour firm fool fraternity Freemason FREEMASONRY funds gentleman George Moore give guinea hands happy human idea JAMES WHITEHEAD John jolly good fellow journey less London look Lord Manchester manufacture merchant mercial travellers mind morning nation of shopkeepers necessary ness never old stager once parcel partner Pinner position president Proprietor Proprietress railway remark replied represented respect road salesman sell shillings smart speaking success tact talent things tion town traveller trade TRAVELLING IN AUSTRALIA true usually warehouse week WHITE HART Whitehead wholesale young traveller
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Page 185 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 209 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Page 182 - I know not why commerce in England should not have its old families, rejoicing to be connected with commerce from generation to generation. It has been so in other countries; I trust it will be so in this country. I think it...
Page 209 - What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
Page 225 - Sir, the name which ought to be, and which will be associated with the success of these measures is the name of a man who, acting, I believe, from pure and disinterested motives, has advocated their cause with untiring energy, and by appeals to reason...
Page 48 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 209 - And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Page 185 - I FIND the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses — mettle and bottom.
Page 187 - Take them into the church. Talent has always something worth hearing, tact is sure of abundance of hearers; talent may obtain a living, tact...
Page 184 - 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.