"But," said the merchant, "How can I have killed your son?
"No," said the genius, "I shall kill you as you killed my son," and so saying, he seized the merchant by the arm, threw him on the ground, and lifted his sabre to cut off his head.
When they are paid by the merchant they operate as an additional tax upon the importing State, whose citizens pay their proportion of them in the character of consumers.
Mechanics and manufacturers will always be inclined, with few exceptions, to give their votes to merchants, in preference to persons of their own professions or trades.
'Prithee, friend, why so sorrowful?' said he to the
merchant; 'what is it you take so deeply to heart?' 'If you would do me any good I would willingly tell you,' said the
merchant.
'A holy man--an angel of God!' he heard just then the voice of Sofya Ivanovna behind him, and also of the
merchant who had supported him.
The French
merchant at his trading post, in these primitive days of Canada, was a kind of commercial patriarch.
Levin, who had meanwhile been putting his gun away in the cupboard, was just going out of the door, but catching the
merchant's words, he stopped.
Now in the case of (1) the
Merchant, what shall I see?
His father, John Chaucer, was a London wine
merchant. The family very likely came at first from France, and the name may mean shoemaker, from an old Norman word chaucier or chaussier, a shoemaker.
From the hall of the nobility the Emperor went to that of the
merchants. There he remained about ten minutes.
On the other side, the commodities of usury are, first, that howsoever usury in some respect hindereth merchandizing, yet in some other it advanceth it; for it is certain that the greatest part of trade is driven by young
merchants, upon borrowing at interest; so as if the usurer either call in, or keep back, his money, there will ensue, presently, a great stand of trade.