It was composed almost entirely of the aristocracy and gentle people of the district, together with the middle and trading classes.
Surely there is yet need for a “Suppression of Sunday Trading Society.
The winds stir the flags of every civilized nation, while the Indians in their long-beaked canoes glide about from ship to ship, satisfying their curiosity or trading with the crews.
One of the main objects of her diplomacy had been to break down the tariff barriers which would have reserved to the greattrading empires the main fruits of their own labour and enterprise.
Since then, I am assured, the Government has adopted stringent measures which some people believe to have put an end to that form of trading with the enemy.
A trading corporation, "Britain" does not buy cotton from another corporation, "America.
A stranger has only to look at a detailed map or a directory, to see how numerous are the buildings, especially in the city, applied in various ways to commerce and trading on a large scale.
In nothing is the past history of the metropolis, the memory of Old London, kept alive in a more remarkable way than by the City Companies, or Trading Guilds, which are still very numerous.
The only three which are actually trading companies at the present day are the Goldsmiths’, the Apothecaries’, and the Stationers’.
Bromley was turning out a steady supply of matches from his lab, and they were now the going currency for trading with the natives.
Trading on the native's delight with fire, he had bribed them with matches to give him one of the tala-mangoes which he tasted, then promptly proceeded to swill until he was quite drunk.
It may be gathered from these remarks that Captain Cuttle's reverence for the stock of instruments was profound, and that his philosophy knew little or no distinction between trading in it and inventing it.
There were no conspicuous people in it, trading far and wide on rotten banks of religion, patriotism, virtue, honour.
The US, Belize's main trading partner, is assisting in efforts to reduce dependency on sugar with an agricultural diversification program.
Britain's inflation rate, which has been consistently well above those of her major trading partners, is expected to decline in 1991.
The US is Mexico's major trading partner, accounting for two-thirds of its exports and imports.
Short-term prospects remain solid so long as major trading partners continue to be prosperous.
New Mexico of trading parties from Canada and Louisiana under Febre, Chapuis, and others.
The site, being a great rendezvous and trading place for the tribes, was known as the "Cadiz of the interior.
In 1504 La Cosa and Vespucius, during a trading voyage on the Gulf of Uraba, ascended the Atrato River two hundred miles by a route which has since been proposed as an interoceanic canal.
Several fishing and trading voyages were also made under the direction of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, an influential member of the Plymouth Company.
By 1750 the exclusive policy of the Jesuits had given way to some extent, pearl fishing was again permitted, privatetrading vessels came from time to time, and the Manila galleon stopped regularly at San Jose.
Pontgrave had a trading post at St. John, and this Biencourt captured.
In the following year a rescue and trading party was led to New Mexico over the same trail by Fray Bernaldino Beltran and Antonio de Espejo.
In 1581 a charter was issued to the Levant Company, which engaged intrading with the Turkish ports along the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
The principal trading centers were Pickawillany in the Miami confederacy, Logstown on the Ohio, and Venango on the Alleghany.
In 1693 a Scotch commercial company was organized with the object of trading to India and Africa.
It is an old man with a tray of the most beautiful new lamps, and he is trading them for old ones.
Illustration] THE NAIL A merchant had been trading in a far city and had made much money, which he was now bringing home with him.
Already I feared that all our misfortunes had come from my trading off that lamp to a beggar.
This latter city lost one by one its trading centres in the East, and all Oriental traffic by way of the Black Sea was practically stopped.
Large aggregations of capital in the hands of trading companies were becoming common.
It was a trading vessel, freighted with a variety of merchandise, and it used sails.
It is probable that their Vinland settlements consisted chiefly of tradingand lumbering establishments.
They were further to enjoy the exclusive privilege of trading with the Cochin Chinese, and of introducing their merchandise free of all charges and imposts.
Neither was any trading vessel or ship of war to be permitted to enter any port on the Cochin China coast save only under the French flag.
The mind becomes somewhat bewildered in imagining the future of those vast river-valleys when hundreds of steamers shall navigate the streams, trading among millions of population dwelling on their banks.
Each year until 1560, a Venetian trading fleet, passing through the Straits of Gibraltar, touching at Spanish and Portuguese ports, at Southampton or London, finally reached the Netherlands at Bruges.
The prosperity of the trading class and the efficiency of the Government were thought to be inseparable; and that commerce should be regulated in the interest of the state was, therefore, the unquestioned maxim of the age.
For the rise of the chartered trading companies, and their connection with early American colonizing companies, see Cheyney's Background of American History, chaps.
English slave-trading companies operating between the coast of Guinea and the American colonies.
It is the chief outfitting port for the Yukon and Alaskan gold fields, and the chief trading center for the numerous ports on the extensive coast-line of Puget Sound.
San Antonio is the naturaltrading center for an immense area, its jobbing houses have an extensive trade in Mexico as well as in Texas.
Magdeburg, on the Elbe, and Cassel, on the Fulda, are the great manufacturing and trading towns of central Prussia.
The DUTCH established trading stations on Manhattan Island and at | |Fort Orange (Albany) on the Hudson.
He had grown rich with his trading and stood in need of nothing.
The chief tradingstations upon the St. Lawrence were Quebec, Three Rivers, the Rapids of St. Louis, and Tadoussac.
First of all, it was to be a trading community pure and simple, with its object frankly to make money.
The site of Merrymount had originally been selected by Captain Wollaston for a trading post.
The South Sea Company was a trading venture which had been started in 1711 for developing commerce with Spanish America and the countries of the Pacific.
The new president's record was not encouraging; twice during the reign of Louis Philippe he had made hairbrained attempts to raise military revolts in France, trading on the great name of his uncle.
The mandarins of Canton had seized a small trading vessel, the Arrow, flying the British flag, and imprisoned the crew.
Their grievance was the Orders in Council, by which we had prohibited neutral ships from trading with France, in retaliation for the Emperor's Berlin Decrees against our own commerce.
The pretexts alleged were, that the Irish church was schismatic, inasmuch as it refused to acknowledge the papal authority, and also that Ireland was infamous for its slave-trading in Christian men.
Trading on this notion, an impostor presented himself at the Scotch court, and was long entertained there as the true King of England by the simple Robert III.
The trading nations, influenced by the hideous policy still exercised on the coast of Africa, kept up intestine warfare.
The boat which conveyed us from Cumana to La Guayra, was one of those employed in trading between the coasts and the West India Islands.
The second section shows how a man may escape want and misery by industry and care both in agriculture and in trading by sea.
There is more fervid imagination and daring ingenuity than business talent in Defoe's essay; if his trading speculations were conducted with equal rashness, it is not difficult to understand their failure.
I will venture to draw this consequence, that we are distracted, speaking of our trading wits, if we do not trade with them.
There can be no doubt that eager and active as Defoe was in his trading enterprises, he was not so wrapt up in them as to be an unconcerned spectator of the intense political life of the time.
In other cases great trading companies were organized to found colonies.
The savages were supported by the fur-trading interests that centred at Quebec and London.
New England port as a good captain let go his anchor on his return from the long trading voyage in the Pacific.
To the manufacturing and trading states this was essential.
As in the time of the Napoleonic wars, the conflict in Europe raised fundamental questions respecting rights of Americans trading with countries at peace as well as those at war.
Two years before the adjustment of the Oregon controversy with England, namely in 1844, the United States had established official and trading relations with China.
With Yankee ingenuity they turned to trading on the river, building before 1836 three prosperous centers of traffic: Dubuque, Davenport, and Burlington.
Moreover, the Department of State had been urging European countries to treat China with fairness, to respect her territorial integrity, and to give her equal trading privileges with all nations.
John Jacob Astor, the resourceful New York merchant, sent out trappers and hunters who established a trading post at Astoria in 1811.
After much trading and discussing, the convention came to the conclusion that Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was the most "available" candidate.
It was organized under royal authority; it received its charter, its grant of land, and its trading privileges from the king and carried on its operations under his supervision and control.
