 As so many of our noble and wealthy families are raised by, and derive from trade, so it is true, and, indeed, it cannot well be otherwise, that many of the younger branches of our gentry, and even of the nobility itself, have descended again into the...  The Complete English Tradesman, Volume 1 - Page 244by Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 323 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1805 - 590 pages
...now behold them, as so many of our noble and wealthy families are sprung from trade, so it is true that many of the younger branches of our gentry, and even of nobility itself, havedescended again into the spring from whence they flowed, and have become tradesmen... | |
 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1805 - 598 pages
...now behold tin-m, as so many of our noble and wealthy families are sprung from trade, so it is true that many of the younger branches of our gentry, and even of nobility itself, have descended agaiu into the spring from whence they flowed, and have become tradesmen... | |
 | Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power - Agriculture - 1941 - 776 pages
...History Society. . .April 1957, p. 24. 3 The Complete English Tradesman, I, 318 (italics in original). the nobility itself, have descended again into the...and have become tradesmen ; and thence it is, that . . . our tradesmen in England are not, as it generally is in other countries, always of the meanest... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 330 pages
...a similar passage in Defoe: "As so many of our noble and wealthy families are raised by, and derive from trade, so it is true, and, indeed, it cannot...other countries, always of the meanest of our people. . . . Trade itself in England is not, as it generally is in other countries, the meanest thing the... | |
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