The Bible in the Counting-house: A Course of Lectures to MerchantsLippincott, Grambo & Company, 1853 - 408 頁 |
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... a discourse delivered on a funeral occasion , before the Young Men attached to the " Jobbing - Houses " in this city . PHILADELPHIA , May , 1853 . CONTENTS . LECTURE I. THE CLAIMS OF THE MERCANTILE PROFESSION viii PREFACE .
... a discourse delivered on a funeral occasion , before the Young Men attached to the " Jobbing - Houses " in this city . PHILADELPHIA , May , 1853 . CONTENTS . LECTURE I. THE CLAIMS OF THE MERCANTILE PROFESSION viii PREFACE .
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... YOUNG MEN ENGAGED IN MERCANTILE - BUSINESS . A FUNERAL PAGEANT - THE VOICE OF PROVIDENCE -LIFE AT A HOTEL RURAL INFLUENCES METROPOLITAN SEDUCTIONS ABORTIVE STRUGGLES PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY - ENTER INTO THY CLOSET - THE DAY OF REST ...
... YOUNG MEN ENGAGED IN MERCANTILE - BUSINESS . A FUNERAL PAGEANT - THE VOICE OF PROVIDENCE -LIFE AT A HOTEL RURAL INFLUENCES METROPOLITAN SEDUCTIONS ABORTIVE STRUGGLES PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY - ENTER INTO THY CLOSET - THE DAY OF REST ...
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... " without replying to the question categorically , incor- porates his answer with the facts of the narrative . His hero , an incorruptible young merchant , after a * Herbert Tracy . brief commercial career in New York , fails ; and 2 ( 13 )
... " without replying to the question categorically , incor- porates his answer with the facts of the narrative . His hero , an incorruptible young merchant , after a * Herbert Tracy . brief commercial career in New York , fails ; and 2 ( 13 )
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... young men must have more scope for ambition , more society , and , above all , employments which will bring in quicker and ampler profits . It is no objection with them that the hazards of com- merce are far greater and its temptations ...
... young men must have more scope for ambition , more society , and , above all , employments which will bring in quicker and ampler profits . It is no objection with them that the hazards of com- merce are far greater and its temptations ...
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... young man of metropolitan birth astonishes his friends by turning farmer . And it is gratifying to see that retired merchants are beginning to wake up to the fact that the globe is not all covered with rows of houses and stores , and ...
... young man of metropolitan birth astonishes his friends by turning farmer . And it is gratifying to see that retired merchants are beginning to wake up to the fact that the globe is not all covered with rows of houses and stores , and ...
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第 287 頁 - 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...
第 230 頁 - 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.
第 351 頁 - Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence...
第 139 頁 - 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.
第 98 頁 - 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.
第 216 頁 - 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.
第 278 頁 - 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.
第 405 頁 - 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.
第 120 頁 - ... 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...
第 130 頁 - 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.