The Bible in the Counting-house: A Course of Lectures to MerchantsLippincott, Grambo & Company, 1853 - 408 Seiten |
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... meet the exi- gencies of his position , is true religion . The chart he requires , the only chart which defines with accu- racy the reefs and quicksands , the treacherous shoals and vagrant currents of the sea which he is traver- sing ...
... meet the exi- gencies of his position , is true religion . The chart he requires , the only chart which defines with accu- racy the reefs and quicksands , the treacherous shoals and vagrant currents of the sea which he is traver- sing ...
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... with the image and super- scription of the only Lord of the conscience , it claims to be installed in every counting - room , and whereso- EXPEDIENCY . ever men may meet for traffic . 43 42 THE BIBLE IN THE COUNTING - HOUSE .
... with the image and super- scription of the only Lord of the conscience , it claims to be installed in every counting - room , and whereso- EXPEDIENCY . ever men may meet for traffic . 43 42 THE BIBLE IN THE COUNTING - HOUSE .
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A Course of Lectures to Merchants Henry Augustus Boardman. EXPEDIENCY . ever men may meet for traffic . 43 And if the claim were as universally conceded as it is urged , that auspicious transformation would pass over the wide domain of ...
A Course of Lectures to Merchants Henry Augustus Boardman. EXPEDIENCY . ever men may meet for traffic . 43 And if the claim were as universally conceded as it is urged , that auspicious transformation would pass over the wide domain of ...
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... meets him under the most unpropitious circumstances . For , in the first place , the party concerned will , not improbably , have become familiar- ized with these usages in his previous training . His clerkship brought him into contact ...
... meets him under the most unpropitious circumstances . For , in the first place , the party concerned will , not improbably , have become familiar- ized with these usages in his previous training . His clerkship brought him into contact ...
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... meet the exigencies of the com- mercial body . Whatever name they may bear , all other codes are radically deficient in precision , in comprehension , and in authority . They have no solid basis , no uniformity , no adequate sanctions ...
... meet the exigencies of the com- mercial body . Whatever name they may bear , all other codes are radically deficient in precision , in comprehension , and in authority . They have no solid basis , no uniformity , no adequate sanctions ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aholiabs bankruptcy banks Bible cantile capital casuistry character Christ Christian clerks commerce conscience consider contract Counting-Houses counting-room covenant-breakers creditors custom danger debts decalogue districts of England Divine dollars domestic duty endorsing engaged evil expediency faith favour feeling firm fortune habit hand hazardous game heart heaven Hoare & Co honesty honour human institutions integrity intel interest Isthmian games John Sergeant kind labour Lecture lence less live Lord Mammon ment mercantile merchant mind moral nation neighbours ness obligation opium parties passion practical principle profession profits proper pulpit question reason religion requires rich rience Roman mythology ruin Sabbath sanction scheme scrip Scripture sell social soul speculation spirit stocks things thousand tion topics trade traffic transactions true trust truth usages usurious virtue wealth whole wife wrong young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 287 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Seite 230 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the Last Days.
Seite 351 - Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence...
Seite 139 - Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Seite 98 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have : I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Seite 216 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Seite 278 - Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Seite 405 - But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment : yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified : but He that judgeth me is the Lord.
Seite 120 - ... ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah ! think what you do when you run in debt ; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor ; you will be in fear when you speak to him ; you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and, by degrees, come to lose your veracity, and sink into base downright lying ; for ' The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt...
Seite 130 - I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.