 He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated,...  The Spectator: Selected Papers - Pagina 8door Sir Richard Steele - 1876 - 276 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1899 - 222 pagina’s
...argue that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the 15 sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1899 - 222 pagina’s
...often argue that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another. I have "heard him prove that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the 15 sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 264 pagina’s
...argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, — and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions 1o than valour, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 252 pagina’s
...argue that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove that diligence makes more lasting acquisi- 90 tions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1900 - 282 pagina’s
...argue that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove that...diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, 90 and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 pagina’s
...another, from another I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst which the greatest favorite is, "A penny saved is a penny got." A general trader of good sense... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1900 - 286 pagina’s
...argue that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove that...diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, 90 and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst... | |
 | 1900 - 492 pagina’s
...another, from another. I have heard him prove that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst which the greatest favorite is, " A penny saved is a penny got." A general trader of good sense... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 476 pagina’s
...argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1902 - 386 pagina’s
...argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that...than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst which the greatest favourite is, 'A penny saved is a penny got.' A general trader of good sense... | |
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