The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, 4. köideFreeman Hunt, 1841 |
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... enterprise , involving great risks and ruinous losses , was un- known . It was not till mankind emerged from barbarism into civilization , and from natural to artificial wants , and thus passed to the pursuits of commerce , that the ...
... enterprise , involving great risks and ruinous losses , was un- known . It was not till mankind emerged from barbarism into civilization , and from natural to artificial wants , and thus passed to the pursuits of commerce , that the ...
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... enterprises of peculiar hazard , and oft- times singularly disastrous in their results . These losses fall heavily on individuals ; but the ardent and enterprising spirit which encounters great labors and hazards for the sake of ...
... enterprises of peculiar hazard , and oft- times singularly disastrous in their results . These losses fall heavily on individuals ; but the ardent and enterprising spirit which encounters great labors and hazards for the sake of ...
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... enterprise is the foremost cause of its rapid progress , its strength , and its greatness . Commercial business is there like a vast lottery , by which a small number of men continually lose , but the state is always a gainer ; such a ...
... enterprise is the foremost cause of its rapid progress , its strength , and its greatness . Commercial business is there like a vast lottery , by which a small number of men continually lose , but the state is always a gainer ; such a ...
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... enterprise through the whole world , and possessing such an infinitely va- ried internal trade , reaching almost to every cottage in the most distant states , should voluntarily surrender up a system which has elsewhere en- joyed such ...
... enterprise through the whole world , and possessing such an infinitely va- ried internal trade , reaching almost to every cottage in the most distant states , should voluntarily surrender up a system which has elsewhere en- joyed such ...
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... enterprise has perished in each . The coasts of commercial life are thick strewn with the spars and hulls of many a sad shipwreck . Men of immense wealth have been , by a stroke , reduced from affluence to want . The last rays of the ...
... enterprise has perished in each . The coasts of commercial life are thick strewn with the spars and hulls of many a sad shipwreck . Men of immense wealth have been , by a stroke , reduced from affluence to want . The last rays of the ...
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