 | Elizabeth Harriot Hudson - 1870 - 402 pages
...here, as you bought them there ?" " I will sell them dearer than I * Pictorial History. bought them, that I may get some profit to feed me, my wife, and children." The manuscript which contains this, and other instructive dialogues, was used as a school-book for... | |
 | Mary Jacomb Wilkin - 1871 - 334 pages
...bought them there?" " No, I will not, for then what would my labour benefit me ? I will sell my things here dearer than I bought them there, that I may get some profit, to feed me and my wife and children." The principal coin used by the Anglo-Saxons was the silver penny. They used... | |
 | Edward Lewes Cutts - 1872 - 572 pages
...sell your things here as you bought them there ?" "I will not, because what would my labour profit me ? I will sell them here, dearer than I bought them...get some profit to feed me, my wife, and children." For the silks and ivory, our merchant would perhaps have to push his adventurous voyage as far as Marseilles... | |
 | Edward Lewes Cutts - 1872 - 574 pages
...sell your things here as you bought them there ?" "I will not, because what would my labour prof1t me ? I will sell them here, dearer than I bought them there, that I may get some prof1t to feed me, my wife, and children." For the silks and ivory, our merchant would perhaps have... | |
 | James Hogg - 1872 - 368 pages
...speaker. To which the merchant answers, ' Nay, in truth ; else, where would be the good of all my labour ? I will sell them here dearer than I bought them there, that so I may get some profit, to feed me and iny wife and children.' * In this brief extract we have a... | |
 | Archibald Hastie Dick - 1881 - 106 pages
...things here as you bought them there ? " "I will not, because, what good would my labour do to me then ? I will sell them here dearer than I bought them there,...that I may get some profit to feed me, my wife, and my children." I think then, that these Saxon tradesmen were very like the English tradesmen of our... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1886 - 684 pages
...tin, silver, glass, and suchVIL like." — "Will you sell your things here as you bought them there?" "I will not, because what would my labour benefit...that I may get some profit, to feed me, my wife, and children."40 THAT public markets were established in various parts of England in this period, we learn... | |
 | Ernest Watson Burgess - 1916 - 256 pages
...you sell your things here as you bought them there?' 'I will not, because what would my labor profit me ? I will sell them here, dearer than I bought them there, that I may get some "Green, Mrs., Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, 1894, II, 135. "Ibid., II, 113. "Seligman, "Mediaeval... | |
 | Harry Gordon Selfridge - 1918 - 662 pages
...replies the merchant honestly to this foolish question, " else where would be the good of all my labour ? I will sell them here dearer than I bought them there, that so I may get some profit to feed me and my wife and children." And, had he been a more expert advertiser,... | |
 | 1924 - 136 pages
...much as you bought them there ? Trader. — I will not. For then what gain is there in my toil ? But I will sell them here dearer than I bought them there, that I may get me some profit to feed me and my wife and my children. THE SHOEMAKER. Master. — Shoemaker, what useful... | |
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Will you sell your things here as you bought them there?" " I will not, because what would my labour benefit me? I will sell them here dearer than I bought them there, that I may get some profit, to feed me, my wife, and children."40 That public markets... 
