Merchant Sentence Examples

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  • The merchant was delighted.

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  • He was brought up in the merchant service, and entered the United States navy as a lieutenant in 1798.

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  • Two government dry docks are available for merchant vessels.

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  • He also ordered that the merchant should come at the same time.

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  • He was educated in Coventry, became a successful merchant, traveled widely throughout Europe and for several years was the financial agent of Charles I.

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  • Born to a wealthy merchant family, she'd been disowned when it became known what kind of deformed child she bore.

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  • He was the son of a merchant, and was himself trained for the pursuits of commerce, in which, by his abilities and enterprising spirit, he attained a conspicuous position.

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  • They traded also on the Red sea, and opened up regular traffic with India as well as with the ports of the south and west, so that it was natural for Solomon to employ the merchant navies of Tyre in his oversea trade.

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  • As the merchant was walking along, he came to a river that flowed gently between green and shady banks.

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  • Al Mansour noticed that the merchant was very sad and downcast.

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  • The merchant felt sure that the fishermen were having a good haul.

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  • One day a strange merchant came to him with some diamonds and pearls which he had brought from beyond the sea.

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  • At sight of his lost treasure, the merchant began to dance and shout for joy.

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  • My mother was the daughter of a wealthy merchant.

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  • His father, Joseph Austin, was a merchant of the city of Leeds; his mother, a sister of Joseph Locke, M.P. for Honiton.

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  • His brother, Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792), was a prominent merchant and a Whig political leader in New York.

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  • In March 1770 a merchant named Liakhov saw a large herd of reindeer coming from the north to the Siberian coast, which induced him to start in a sledge in the direction whence they came.

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  • The principality or the emporium, it is true, would supply motives to the prince and the merchant only; and it may be urged that to the mass of the crusaders the religious motive was all in all.

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  • The bishops did not obtain possession until the reign of John, who during the interval in 1201 gave Hartlepool a charter granting the burgesses the same privileges that the burgesses of Newcastle enjoyed; in 1230 Bishop Richard Poor granted further liberties, including a gild merchant.

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  • After five years of government service he resigned to become a jewel merchant.

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  • King John (1201) constituted Helleston a free borough, established a gild merchant, and granted the burgesses freedom from toll and other similar dues throughout the realm, and the cognizance of all pleas within the borough except crown pleas.

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  • At the British Seamen's Orphans' home boys are fed, clothed and trained as apprentices for the merchant service.

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  • His father, a prosperous merchant in Breslau, intended Ferdinand for a business career, and sent him to the commercial school at Leipzig; but the boy got himself transferred to the university, first at Breslau, and afterwards at Berlin.

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  • Its most important early charter was that granted in 1340 by Hugh le Despenser, whereby the burgesses acquired the right to nominate persons from whom the constable of the castle should select a bailiff and other officers, two ancient fairs, held on the 29th of June and, 9th of September, were confirmed, and extensive trading privileges were granted, including the right to form a merchant gild.

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  • The first successful attempt to revive the study of algebra in Christendom was due to Leonardo of Pisa, an Italian merchant trading in the Mediterranean.

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  • The fourth son, William Ewart, was named after a merchant of Liverpool who was his father's friend.

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  • Vermigli's second wife, Caterina Merenda, whom he married at Zurich, survived him, marrying a merchant of Locarno.

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  • His son and grandson - respectively the great-grandfather and grandfather of James Martineau - were surgeons in the same city, while his father was a manufacturer and merchant.

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  • He seems to have been a sort of commission merchant, especially in Spanish and Portuguese goods, and at some time to have visited Spain on business.

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  • Yet by taking advantage of the dark, and the turn of the tide, he succeeded in carrying the great majority of his merchant ships home.

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  • The popular agitators, headed by Samuel Adams - with whom John Hancock, an opulent merchant and one of the few of the richer people who deserted the crown, leagued himself - forced on the movement, which became war in April 1775, when Gage sent an expedition to Concord and Lexington to destroy military stores accumulated by the patriots and to capture Adams and Hancock, temporarily staying at Lexington.

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  • It is the seat of Parsons College (Presbyterian, co-educational, 1875), endowed by Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Sr. (1798-1855), a merchant of Buffalo, N.Y.

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  • Commerce.-Ecuador has no merchant marine beyond a few small vessels engaged in the coastwise traffic, some eighteen or twenty river steamers on the Guayas and its tributaries, and a number of steam launches, towboats and various descriptions of barges engaged in the transportation of produce and goods on the rivers.

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  • In 1905 the Opposition made an effort to effect a change of policy, and were successful in obtaining the election of Lizaro Garcia, a well-to-do merchant and a director of the Banco commercial y Agricola.

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  • While passing through Alexandria in 1864 he met Miss Bamba Miller, the daughter of a German merchant who had married an Abyssinian.

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  • In 1880 he was married to Elizabeth Brine, daughter of Isaac Brine, timber merchant.

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  • In it he granted them the same privileges as the citizens of York, among these being a gild merchant and freedom from toll throughout the whole of Yorkshire, with right to take it at all the markets and fairs in their town except at the three principal fairs, the toll of which belonged to the archbishop. In 1200 King John granted the town a new charter, for which the burgesses had to pay 500 marks.

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  • Cromwell had been moved to sympathy with the Jewish cause partly by his tolerant leanings, but chiefly because he foresaw the importance for English commerce of the presence of the Jewish merchant princes, some of whom had already found their way to London.

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  • However, thousands of merchant seafarers who died during WWII are still not entitled to an official commemoration.

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  • In 1915 she was converted into an Armed merchant cruiser.

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  • Give not the merchant nor the fishermen the prize; But give it to that one who is wisest of the wise.

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  • A lot depends on the needs and preferences of the merchant.

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  • Through his father's relatives in South Carolina, McGillivray received a good education, but at the age of seventeen, after a short experience as a merchant in Savannah and Pensacola, he returned to the Muscogee Indians, who elected him chief.

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  • For a short time he was in a merchant's office in Amsterdam, but early devoted himself to the manufacture of microscopes and to the study of the minute structure of organized bodies by their aid.

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  • Amongst the principal buildings are the town house (1815), with a tower and spire; the town hall (1873); the library (1887) founded by James Moffat, a merchant of the burgh, and the Carnegie Park Orphanage, also provided from the same bequest.

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  • Merchant vessels were required for their protection to sail in convoy.

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  • Lancelot was sent to the Cooper's free school, Ratcliff, in the parish of Stepney, and then to the Merchant Taylors' school under Richard Mulcaster.

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  • In 1180 a gild merchant was established, and the county gaol was completed in 1188.

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  • It was at this time (1170) that a rich merchant of Lyons, Peter Waldo, sold his goods and gave them to the poor; then he went forth as a preacher of voluntary poverty.

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  • He went to sea young in the merchant service and was in command of a vessel at the age of nineteen.

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  • He began his medical career as apprentice to John Paisley, a Glasgow surgeon, and after completing his apprenticeship he became surgeon to a merchant vessel trading between London and the West Indies.

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  • As one result of the Franco-Prussian War, France in 1872 withdrew her garrisons, handing over the care of the establishments to a merchant named Verdier, to whom an annual subsidy of £800 was paid.

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  • This merchant sent an agent into the interior who made friendly treaties between France and some of the native chiefs.

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  • Young Say was intended to follow a commercial career, and was sent, with his brother Horace, to England, and lived first at Croydon, in the house of a merchant, to whom he acted as clerk, and afterwards in London, where he was in the service of another employer.

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  • His father was a country merchant from Tennessee, who moved soon after his son's birth to Hannibal, Missouri, a little town on the Mississippi.

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  • A Yakutsk Cossack, named Vaghin, wintered on Bolshoy in 1712, but it was a merchant, Lyakhov, who first described the two greater islands of this group in 1770, and three years later reached on sledges the largest island of the New Siberia group, which he named Kotelnyi.

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  • Sannikov, with a party of hunters, discovered in1805-1808Stolbovyi, Thaddeus and New Siberia Islands, and a merchant, Byelkov, the Byelkovskyi Islands.

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  • As a pastoral god he would give luck to the flocks and herds; when worshipped by townspeople, he would give luck to the merchant, the orator, the traveller and the athlete.

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  • The consolidating Merchant Shipping Act of 1854 and subsequent legislation so much increased the department that in 1866 it was divided into three, viz.

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  • It also deals with the accounts of harbours, lighthouses and mercantile marine offices, and of the merchant seamen's fund, and with the consuls' accounts for disabled seamen abroad.

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  • In 1711 title to the place was acquired by Samuel Bayard, a New York merchant, who built on Castle Point his summer residence.

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  • This other evidence consists partly of letters from Nestorius, preserved among the works of those to whom they were written, some sermons collected in a Latin translation by Marius Mercator, an African merchant who was doing business in Constantinople at the time of the dispute, and,other material gathered from Syriac manuscripts.

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  • The largest ethnical groups in the population are the Albanian and Greek; the purest form of colloquial Greek is spoken here among the wealthy and highly educated merchant families.

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  • He insisted on the use of the prayer-book among the English soldiers in the service of Holland, and forced strict conformity on the church of the merchant adventurers at Delft, endeavouring even to reach the colonists in New England.

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  • The influence of the revival extended to many other schools, such as Christ's Hospital (1552), Westminster (1560), and Merchant Taylors' (1561); Repton (1 557), Rugby (1567) and Harrow (1571).

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  • A Confederate attack on the post of Helena, Arkansas, was the last serious fight on the great river, and before the end of July the first merchant steamer from St Louis discharged her cargo at New Orleans.

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  • His settlement of the railway dispute in 1906 was universally applauded; and the bills he introduced and passed for reorganizing the port of London, dealing with Merchant Shipping, and enforcing the working in England of patents granted there, and so increasing the employment of British labour, were greeted with satisfaction by the tariff-reformers, who congratulated themselves that a Radical free-trader should thus throw over the policy of laisser faire.

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  • A fuller grant in 1206 gave the burgesses a gild merchant, the husting court to be held once a week only, and general liberties according to the customs of Oxford, saving the rights of the bishop and the earl of Arundel, whose ancestor William D'Albini had received from William the moiety of the tolbooth.

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  • Merchant's pound, in 1270 established for all except gold, silver and medicines = 6750 grains, generally superseded by avoirdupois in 1303.

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  • Merchant's pound of 7200 grains, from France and Germany, also superseded.

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  • Its circulating capital is also composed of four parts - (I) money, (2) provisions in the hands of the dealers, (3) materials and (4) completed work in the hands of the manufacturer or merchant.

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  • Below the king was a numerous and powerful class of nobles, the highest of whom (tlatoani) were great vassals owing little more than homage and tribute to their feudal lord, while the natural result of the unruliness of the noble class was that the king to keep them in check increased their numbers, brought them to the capital as councillors, and balanced their influence by military and household officers, and by a rich and powerful merchant class.

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  • The church of St Mary existed at a very early period, but the present building, chiefly of brick, was erected in 1535 by Robert Thorne, a merchant, and Sir George Monoux, lord mayor of London, and has undergone frequent alteration.

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  • Street at the charge of Mr Henry Roe, a merchant of Dublin, who also presented the Synod House.

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  • Besides these public establishments for the custody of lunatics, there are in the vicinity of Dublin various private asylums. The principal institution for blind men (and also those afflicted by gout) is Simpson's hospital (1780), founded by a merchant of Dublin; while blind women are maintained at the Molyneux asylum (1815).

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  • As the village expanded 1 Mayhew was born at Tisbury, Wiltshire, was a merchant in Southampton, emigrated to Massachusetts about 1633, settled at Watertown, Mass., in 3635; was a member of the Massachusetts General Court in 1636-1644, and after 1644 or 1645 lived on Martha's Vineyard.

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  • In 1807 he married the youthful widow of Andrew McGill, a wealthy merchant of Montreal, and brother of the founder of McGill University.

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  • The grandfather of Rabindranath was Dwarkanath, " merchant, philanthropist and reformer," who was known to his contemporaries as " Prince Tagore."

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  • On the south side of the town there are three harbours - the large western or merchant harbour, the western flank of which is formed by a great mole joining the fortifications which traverse the breadth of the island on this side; the middle harbour, used chiefly for fitting out and repairing vessels; and the eastern or war harbour for vessels of the Russian navy.

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  • The Peter and Catherine canals, communicating with the merchant and middle harbours, traverse the town.

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  • The Civil War caused enormous losses to the merchant marine, and the worldwide substitution about this time of iron steamers for wooden steamers and sailing vessels contributed to prevent a recovery; because, although ship-building was one of the earliest arts developed in the colonies, and one that was prosecuted with the highest success so long as wooden ships were the dominant type, the United States has never achieved marked success with the iron steamer, and the law has precluded the registry as American of vessels built abroad.

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  • The merchant marine of the United States in 1900 totalled 5,164,839 net tons, which was less than that of 1860 (5,353,808), in which year American shipping attained an amount which only in recent years Exports of Domestic Merchandise.

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  • The Robinson family was descended from an eminent Hamburg merchant, William Robinson (1522-1616), who represented York in parliament in Elizabeth's reign.

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  • He was also sent to carry the tribute which the United States still condescended to pay to the dey of Algiers, in order to secure exemption from capture for its merchant ships in the Mediterranean - a service which he performed punctually, though with great disgust.

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  • On his release he returned for a time to the merchant service in order to make good the pecuniary loss caused by his captivity.

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  • The marine hydrometers, as supplied by the British government to the royal navy and the merchant marine, are glass instruments with slender stems, and generally serve to indicate specific gravities from 1.000 to 1.040.

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  • His calling was that of a merchant, in which he and his son Franz prospered, becoming ultimately wealthy.

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  • Usually the manufacturer sells either directly or through an agent to a merchant who sells again to the shopkeeper, but the last twenty or thirty years have seen a considerable development of more direct dealing.

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  • This was in the 12th century B.C. The Tyrian trader saw that his opportunity was come, and the Aegean lay open to his merchant vessels.

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  • The town and lands were purchased in 1720 by a fishing company in England and, on their failure, by the Merchant Maidens' Hospital of Edinburgh for £3000, who are still the overlords.

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  • An island merchant's son, he looked naturally first to the sea for a profession; but a voyage at the age of fifteen to Sardinia, Sicily and Egypt did not prove satisfactory.

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  • The registration of deaths at sea is regulated by the act of 1874 together with the Merchant Shipping Act 1894.

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  • Its merchant ships vied with those of Genoa, Venice and Ragusa, trading as far west as the North Sea and the Baltic, and as far east as Alexandria.

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  • The botanist Jungermann had plant houses at Altdorf in Switzerland; those of Loader, a London merchant, and the conservatory in the Apothecaries' Botanic Garden at Chelsea, were among the first structures of the kind erected in British gardens.

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  • This play, based more or less on Lillo's Merchant of London, and influenced in its character-drawing by the novels of Richardson, is the first biirgerliches Trauerspiel, or "tragedy of common life" in German.

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  • In 1756 he accepted the invitation of Gottfried Winkler, a wealthy young merchant, to accompany him on a foreign tour for three years.

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  • In 1775 he travelled for nine months in Italy with Prince Leopold of Brunswick, and in the following year he married Eva KOnig, the widow of a Hamburg merchant, with whom he had been on terms of intimate friendship. But their happiness lasted only for a brief period; in 1778 she died in childbed.

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  • The medieval constitution of Groningen, unlike that of Utrecht, was aristocratic. Merchant gild there was none; and the craft gilds were without direct influence on the city government, which held them in subjection.

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  • His father, Daniel Doddridge, was a London merchant, and his mother the orphan daughter of the Rev. John Bauman, a Lutheran clergyman who had fled from Prague to escape religious persecution, and had held for some time the mastership of the grammar school at Kingston-upon-Thames.

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  • A furrier or skin merchant must possess a good eye for colour to be successful, the difference in value on this subtle matter solely (in the rarer precious sorts, especially sables, natural black, silver and blue fox, sea otters, chinchillas, fine mink, &c.) being so considerable that not only a practised but an intuitive sense of colour is necessary to accurately determine the exact merits of every skin.

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  • There is a tradition, supported by a reference on a plea roll, that Randle, earl of Chester (1181-1232) made Macclesfield a free borough, but the earliest charter extant is that granted by Edward, prince of Wales and earl of Chester, in 1261, constituting Macclesfield a free borough with a merchant gild, and according certain privileges in the royal forest of Macclesfield to the burgesses.

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  • The mining has always been carried on by natives of low caste, and by primitive methods which do not differ much from those described by the French merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689), who paid a prolonged visit to most of the mines between 1638 and 1665 as a dealer in precious stones.

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  • After this it rose rapidly into importance as a manufacturing and commercial town, becoming, after Nuremberg, the centre of the trade between Italy and the north of Europe; its merchant princes, the Fuggers and Welsers, rivalled the Medici of Florence; but the alterations produced in the currents of trade by the discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries occasioned a great decline.

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  • He was dismissed from the privy council; his portrait was removed from the hall of Trinity College; the Merchant Guild of Dublin struck his name off their rolls.

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  • He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford.

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  • The town possesses a pier and promenade, a theatre, assembly rooms, and numerous convalescent homes, including an establishment belonging to the Merchant Taylors' Company.

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  • Luderitz, a Bremen tobacco merchant, approached Bismarck on the question of establishing a trading station on the coast at Angra Pequena.

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  • He entered the business of his uncle, an export provision merchant in Waterford, in 1779 and succeeded him in 1790.

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  • It was founded in the 14th century by Genoese merchant adventurers, who established a bank, and a trade in silks and velvets.

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  • After 1540, however, Venice, as mistress of the seas, guaranteed the safety of Turkish merchant vessels, and provided them with an escort of galleys.

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  • Within a few weeks of his return (July 7th, 1494) Diirer was married, according to an arrangement apparently made between the parents during his absence, to Agnes Frey, the daughter of a well-to-do merchant of the city.

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  • In 1509 followed the "Assumption of the Virgin" with the Apostles gathered about her tomb, a rich altarpiece with figures of saints and portraits of the donor and his wife in the folding wings, executed for Jacob Heller, a merchant of Frankfort, in 1509.

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  • There he became a general merchant, first at York, then at Dundas, and later at Queenston.

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  • In the 13th century, as part of the barony of Halton, the manor passed to Henry, earl of Lincoln, who by a charter dated 1282 declared the town a free borough, with a gild merchant and numerous privileges, including power to elect a mayor, a catchpole and an aletaster.

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  • By the act of 1872 their management was transferred to the school boards, and they may be conveniently classified into higher-class public schools, such as the old grammar schools and the liberally endowed schools of the Merchant Company in Edinburgh, and higher grade schools, with a few years' preparatory course for the universities, while some of the ordinary schools have earned the grant for higher education.

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  • On that footing the foreign office grants passports to the holders of colonial certificates of naturalization, and protects them in all foreign countries but that of their origin; and the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, sec. 1, allows persons naturalized in British possessions to be owners of British ships.

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  • In 1565 the borough possessed a gild merchant, at the head of which were two gild stewards.

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  • Merchant vessels must of course have plied between England and France or Frisia.

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  • His distress had almost amounted to despair, when he procured the situation of tutor in the family of a French merchant in Leipzig, which enabled him to continue his studies.

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  • Fortunately his friend Holderlin, now tutor in Frankfort, secured a similar situation there for Hegel in the family of Herr Gogol, a merchant (January 1797).

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  • He was a clerk in a store at Strafford in 1825 - 1828, and at Portland, Maine, in 1828-1831, and was a merchant and then a farmer in his native town in 1831-1855.

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  • At Eisenach he attracted the notice of the wife of a wealthy merchant of Eisenach, whom his biographers usually identify as Frau Cotta.

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  • An inquisition held in 1383 discloses two markets, a merchant gild, pillory and tumbrel.

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  • The magistracy was for two centuries almost exclusively in the hands of the merchant aristocracy, who formed the companies of traders or "nations," such as the Bergen-fahrer, Novgorodfahrer, Riga fahrer and Stockholm-fahrer.

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  • At the Kohat mines, and in the salt evaporation works on the sea-coast, with the exception of a few of the Madras factories, the government does not come between the manufacturer and the merchant, except in so far as is necessary in order to levy the duty from the salt as it issues from the factory.

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  • After leaving his second post he was received into the house of a merchant at Riga named Johann Christoph Behrens, who contracted a great friendship for him and selected him as his companion for a tour through Danzig, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam and London.

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  • When on the point of death, Mahommed gave the famous sword of the Prophet called Dhu`l-Figar to a merchant to whom he owed 400 dinars.

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  • His grandfather, Andreas, originally a Bremen merchant, was one of the founders (1st of January 1766) of the banking-house of Grote, Prescott & Company in Threadneedle Street, London (the name of Grote did not disappear from the firm till 1879).

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  • He was the son of a merchant of that town who lost the greater part of his means by speculation.

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  • The second Hague conference, of 1907, besides revising the convention made by the first conference, of 18 99, as to the laws of war on land, produced new conventions, dealing respectively with the opening of hostilities; neutral rights and duties in land warfare; the status of enemy merchant ships at the outbreak of war; the conversion of merchant ships into ships of war; submarine mines; bombardment by naval forces; the application of the Geneva principles to naval warfare; the rights of maritime capture; the establishment of an international prize court; and neutral rights and duties in maritime warfare.

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  • These gilds would, where they existed, no doubt also influence the management of town affairs; but nowhere has the Rat, as used to be thought, developed out of a gild, nor has the latter anywhere in Germany played a part at all similar in importance to that of the English gild merchant, the only exception being for a time the Richerzeche, or Gild of the Rich of Cologne, from early times by far the largest, the richest, and the most important trading centre among German cities, and therefore provided with an administration more complex, and in some respects more primitive, than any other.

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  • The word Gilde alone forms an exception, inasmuch as, generally speaking, it was used by merchant gilds only.'

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  • Dutch House, close to Kew House, was sold by Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, to Sir Hugh Portman, a Dutch merchant, late in the 16th century, and in 1781 was purchased by George III.

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  • On this square stands the Artusor Junker-hof (the merchant princes of the middle ages were in Germany styled Junker, squire), containing a hall richly decorated with wood carving and pictures, once used as a banqueting-room and now serving as the exchange.

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  • This probably included a gild merchant which is mentioned in the Quo Warranto Rolls as one of the privileges claimed by the burgesses.

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  • Its high tower has four stages, each adorned with grotesques; and Greenway's chapel, built in 1517 by John Greenway, a wool merchant of Tiverton, is ornamented with figures minutely carved in stone.

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  • Blundell's grammar school, founded under the will of Peter Blundell, a rich cloth merchant, in 1604, has modern buildings outside the town in Tudor style; and, among others, scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

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  • La Valette, superior of the Jesuit missions in Martinique, had set up as a West-India merchant on a large scale.

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  • After being educated at the gymnasium of his native town, Tersteegen was for some years apprenticed to a merchant.

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  • He was admitted on the it th of June 1665 to Merchant Taylors' school, having, according to one authority, been previously at Oakham.

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  • His father was a merchant in good circumstances, and he received a liberal education at the college of Rouen, afterwards attending the military school at St Cyr.

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  • The other was built by another merchant prince, Vimala Shah, apparently about A.D.

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  • Gregoire, a merchant of Havre, and friend of the Hamburg house, with whose son Anthime he formed a fast friendship. Returning to Hamburg, for the next four years he had but indifferent training.

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  • At Hamburg in the beginning of 1805 he was placed in a merchant's office.

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  • The father was a merchant in fair circumstances.

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  • He praises the horses of the Svear and speaks of their great trade in furs of arctic animals which were transferred from merchant to merchant until they reached Rome.

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  • The prosperity of Chile is intimately connected with her ocean-going trade, and no elaborate system of national railway lines and domestic manufactures can ever change this relationship. These conditions should have developed a large merchant marine, but the Chileans are not traders and are sailors only in a military sense.

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  • In 1905 their ocean-going merchant marine consisted of only 148 vessels, of which 54 were steamers of 42,873 tons net, and 94 were sailing vessels of 39,34 6 tons.

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  • In commercial morality, a Persian merchant will compare not unfavourably with the European generally..

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  • The Isfahan merchant and the Armenian at times wear the hat very tall.

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  • In the Travels of a Merchant in Persia the story of Yaqubs death is supplemented by the statement that the great lords, hearing of their kings decease, had quarrels among themselves, so that for five or six years all Persia was in a state of civil war, first one and then another of the nobles becoming sultans.

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  • Zeno, the anonymous merchant and Angiolello affirm that the devotee was defeated and killed in battlethe first making his conqueror to be Alamut, the second a general of Alamuts, and the third an officer sent by Rustam named Suleiman Bey.

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  • In 1801 an Armenian merchant from Bagdad had appeared as the bearer of credentials from Napoleon, but his mission was mistrusted and came to nothing.

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  • His father, Thomas Jevons, a man of strong scientific tastes and a writer on legal and economic subjects, was an iron merchant.

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  • A mockery of popular institutions, under the name of a burgher council, indeed existed; but this was a mere delusion, and must not be confounded with the system of local government by means of district burgher councils which that most able man, Commissioner de Mist, sought to establish during the brief government of the Batavian Republic from 1803 to 1806, when the Dutch nation, convinced and ashamed of the false policy by which they had permitted a mere money-making association to disgrace the Batavian name, and to entail degradation on what might have been a free and prosperous colony, sought to redeem their error by making this country a national colonial possession, instead of a slavish property, to be neglected, oppressed or ruined, as the caprice or avarice of its merchant owners might dictate.

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  • For an account of the "degeneration of craftgilds" a general reference may be made to Brentano, On Gilds (1870), and C. Gross, The Gild Merchant (2 vols., 1890).

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  • For example, in the Merchant Taylors the fees are - upon taking up the freedom, by patrimony or servitude, £I, 3s.

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  • In theory the most lucrative branches of commerce, such as the pepper trade, were monopolies vested in the Crown; the chartered companies and associations of merchant Policy.

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  • At this time Barlaam, an eremite of great sanctity and knowledge, dwelling in the wilderness of Sennaritis, divinely warned, travels to India in the disguise of a merchant, and gains access to Prince Josaphat, to whom he imparts the Christian doctrine and commends the monastic life.

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  • Early in this century both England and Scotland had their " conservators " with " jurisdiction to do justice between merchant and merchant beyond the seas "; but France led the way.

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  • As the powers and duties of consuls vary with the particular commercial interests they have to protect, and the civilization of the state in whose territory they reside, instead of abstract definition, we summarize the provisions on this subject of the British Merchant Shipping Acts.

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  • The Confederates established agencies in England for the purchase of arms, which they despatched in ordinary merchant vessels to the Bahamas, whence they were transhipped into fast steamers especially constructed for the purpose.

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  • He was invalided out of the navy and made several voyages in merchant ships.

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  • The St Petersburg suburb is the seat of the German aristocracy and merchant community.

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  • He entered England in the characteristic guise of a jewel merchant, arrived in London on the 24th of June 1580, and at once began to preach.

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  • At Snaresbrook in the parish of Wanstead are the Infant Orphan Asylum, founded in 1827, and the Royal Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, established in London in 1817 and refounded here in 1861.

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  • Equestrian seals of barons and knights; the seals of ladies of rank; the armorial seals of the gentry; and the endless examples, chiefly of private seals, with devices of all kinds, sacred and profane, ranging from the finely engraved work of art down to the roughly cut merchant's mark of the trader and the simple initial letfer of the yeoman, typical of the time when everybody had his seal.

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  • Walsall had a merchant gild in 1390; in the 17th century it was already known for its manufacture of iron goods and nail-making.

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  • The charitable institutions include the infirmary; the cholera hospital; the eye infirmary; the fever reception house; Sir Gabriel Wood's mariners' asylum, an Elizabethan building erected in 1851 for the accommodation of aged merchant seamen; and the Smithson poorhouse and lunatic asylum, built beyond the southern boundary in 1879.

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  • He became a merchant at Athens, and in 1847 his house was burnt down in an anti-Semitic riot.

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  • At this time its population numbered 150,000; its cruisers preyed upon the fleets of the neighbouring Christian states; and its merchant ships traded with countries as distant as Egypt and Syria.

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  • The governing classes are of course Russians, who constitute also the merchant and artizan classes.

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  • His father Timothy Edwards (1669-1758), son of a prosperous merchant of Hartford, had graduated at Harvard, was minister at East Windsor, and eked out his salary by tutoring boys for college.

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  • His father was a wealthy merchant, who next year became warden of the Company of Ironmongers, but died early in 1576.

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  • Her son owed his escape from the miseries of her household to another member of the company, Moody, who wrote to Mr Stratford Canning, a merchant in London and younger brother of the elder George Canning.

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  • Formerly much of the business between manufacturer and merchant was transacted in the cloth halls, which formed a kind of market, but merchants now order goods directly from the manufacturers.

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  • After spending four years with his new captors, he was ransomed by a fellow-countryman, a merchant of the tribe of Issachar.

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  • Esther, daughter of a merchant named Edward Johnson, a dependant, and legatee to a small amount, of Sir William Temple's (born in March 1680), whose acquaintance he had made at Moor Park in 1689, and whom he has immortalized as "Stella," came over with her companion Rebecca Dingley, a poor relative of the Temple family, and was soon permanently domiciled in his neighbourhood.

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  • A merchant vessel laden with Spanish wines was sent to Lough Swilly, and anchoring off Rathmullan, where the boy was residing in the castle of MacSweeny his foster parent, Hugh Roe with some youthful companions was enticed on board, when the ship immediately set sail and conveyed the party to Dublin.

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  • A gild merchant was granted by Edward I., Edward II.

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  • The merchant navy of Rumania comprised about 495 vessels of 145,000 tons, including 88 steamers.

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  • A merchant from Sunaparanta having joined the Society was desirous of preaching to his relations, and is said to have asked Gotama's permission to do so.

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  • His success as an iron merchant led to his becoming chairman of the Glasgow Iron Trade Association.

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  • The Pacific, hitherto free from their intrusion, showed many sail of merchant vessels, while on land opposition south of the Bay of Panama was of little avail, since few were acquainted with the use of fire-arms. Coxon and seventy men returned as they had gone, but the others, under Sawkins, Sharp and Watling, roamed north and south on islands and mainland, and remained for long ravaging the coast of Peru.

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  • Gladstone, was born - had been a merchant in Leith.

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  • In 1714 the question of finding the longitude at sea, which had been looked upon as an important one for several years, was brought into prominence by a petition presented to the House of Commons by a number of captains of Her Majesty's ships and merchant ships and of London merchants.

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  • In 1491 he was at Cork as the servant of a Breton silk merchant Pregent (Pierre Jean) Meno.

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  • A second draft allowed the man who had the military equipment complete, but not fully the five hides of land, to slip into the list, and also the merchant who has fared thrice over the high seas at his own expense.

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  • He owned many ships, and traded with great profit to himself abroad, because he could promise, as a king, advantages to foreign buyers and sellers with which no mere merchant could compete.

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  • From this time forward the Venetian monopoly ceased, and the visits of English merchant vessels to the Mediterranean became frequent and regular.

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  • In 1606 a merchant named John Bates (q.v.) resisted the payment of an impositionas duties levied by the sole authority of the crown were then called.

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  • The merchant needed protection for his trade; the voters gladly welcomed election days as bringing guineas to their pockets.

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  • At the end of the reign the tonnage of British merchant vessels had reached 13,700,000 tons, of which more than.

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  • In 1833 he removed to Detroit, Michigan, where he became a prosperous dry-goods merchant.

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  • The principal buildings comprise the court house, the county hall (with portraits by Raeburn, Romney, Opie and others), the town hall, the Meffan Institute (including the free library), the infirmary, poorhouse and the Reid hall, founded by Peter Reid, a merchant in the burgh who also gave the public park.

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  • Locke was then at Rotterdam, where he lived for a year in the house of a Quaker friend, Benjamin Furley, or Furly, a wealthy merchant and lover of books.

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  • Three years afterwards he joined the United States navy; but after making a voyage or two in a merchant vessel, to perfect himself in seamanship, and obtaining his lieutenancy, he married and resigned his commission (1811).

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  • He gradually became a ship-owner and a successful merchant, retiring from business in 1794.

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  • During the later middle ages the Servian mines brought in a large revenue to the merchant princes of Ragusa.

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  • He seems to have gone next to to Paris, staying perhaps with Etienne de la Forge, a Protestant merchant who suffered for his faith in February 1 53 5.

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  • His father, a merchant of Canea, took an active part in the Cretan patriotic movement and was therefore exiled by the Turks in 1866, but returned to the island in 1872.

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  • The normal annual expenditure amounts to about L56,000, while 24,000 is generally allotted to extraordinary works, such as new cuttings, &c. Between 1857 and 1905 a sum of about one and three quarter millions sterling was spent on engineering works, including the construction of quays, lighthouses, workshops and buildings, &c. Sulina from being a collection of mud hovels has developed into a town with 5000 inhabitants; a well-found hospital has been established where all merchant sailors receive gratuitous treatment; lighthouses, quays, floating elevators and an efficient pilot service all combine to make it a first-class port.

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  • With this object George Thompson (a merchant who had traded with Barbary) was sent out in the "Catherine," and ascended the Gambia in his ship to Kassan, a Portuguese trading town, thence continuing his journey in small boats.

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  • Two years afterwards Richard Jobson, another agent of the Company of Adventurers, advanced beyond the falls of Barraconda; and he was followed, about forty years later, by Vermuyden, a Dutch merchant, who on his return to Europe asserted that he had reached a country full of gold.

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  • John Patten, the master of an English merchant ship, and part of his crew lived on Tristan from August 1790 to April 1791, during which time they captured 5600 seals; but the first permanent inhabitant was one Thomas Currie, who landed on the island in 1810.

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  • War having broken out in this year between the United States and Great Britain the islands were largely used as a base by American cruisers sent to prey on British merchant ships.

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  • Verminck, a Marseilles merchant, discovered (1879) the sources of the Falico, &c., and in 1885 the Tembi source was visited by Captain Brouet, a French officer.

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  • After several unsuccessful attempts to re-establish the gild merchant, the government in 1592 was vested in the bailiff of the lord of the manor.

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  • The merchant navy of Spain, far from decaying through the loss of her colonies in 1898, seems to have been given fresh impetus.

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  • Encouragement of industry was not wanting; the state undertook to develop the herds of merino sheep, by issuing prohibitions against inclosures, which proved the ruin of agriculture, and gave premiums for large merchant ships, which ruined the owners of small vessels and reduced the merchant navy of Spain to a handful of galleons.

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  • The successors of Mehemet Ali, in an endeavour to make the country more profitable, extended their conquests to the south, and in 1853 and subsequent years trading posts were established on the Upper Nile, the pioneer European merchant being John Petherick, British consular agent at Khartum.'

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  • Gessi, who had most successfully governed his province, found his position under Raouf intolerable, resigned his post in September 1880 and was succeeded by Frank Lupton, an Englishman, and formerly captain of a Red Sea merchant steamer, who was given the rank of bey.

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  • Another bill which he had much at heart, on merchant shipping, had to be abandoned, and a royal commission substituted, but the subsequent legislation in1888-1894owed much to his efforts.

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  • Charles established a merchant marine and a formidable navy, which under Jean de Vienne threatened the English coast between 1 377 and 1380.

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  • It subjected every farmer, manufacturer, merchant and shopkeeper to the continual visits and examination of the tax-gatherers, whose number was necessarily very great.

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  • Firmus, a wealthy merchant of Seleucia, had proclaimed himself emperor of Egypt.

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  • Among her many educational endowments may be specified the St Stephen's Institute in Vincent Square, Westminster (1846); she started sewing schools in Spitalfields when the silk trade began to fail; helped to found the shoe-black brigade; and placed hundreds of destitute boys in training-ships for the navy and merchant service.

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  • Gloucester harbour was probably noted by Champlain (as La Beauport), and a temporary settlement was made by English fishermen sent out by the Dorchester Company of "merchant adventurers" in 1623-1625; some of these settlers returned to England in 1625, and others, with Roger Conant, the governor, removed to what is now Salem.'

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  • Of all early English chartered companies, the "Merchant Adventurers" conducted its operations the most widely.

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  • In the "Merchant Adventurers'" enterprises is to be seen the germ of the trading companies which had so remarkable a development in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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  • Thus at Leighton Buzzard on Rogation Monday, in accordance with the will of one Edward Wilkes, a London merchant who died in 1646, the trustees of his almshouses accompanied the boys.

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  • Having recovered his freedom by an exchange of prisoners, he worked for several years as a merchant skipper with success.

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  • The finest of his merchant father's wares - -from delicate silver to well-bred horses to marble statues - -were packed in the hold alongside rare fruits and animals.

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  • Naturally, as a Hampton resident Garrick was noticed by Walpole who rather disparaged his social standing as a wine merchant turned actor.

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  • In Cape Town we have a merchant naval academy.

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  • If you do not qualify for a merchant account or do not wish to, then you can use the services of a bureau.

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  • Thence to the merchant adventurers port city of Bristol.

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  • She married merchant banker Jon Norton, already a father of two, in 1995.

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  • Sir David Scholey will step down as chairman of Close Brothers at the merchant banking group's October AGM.

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  • Guy Merchant, a pigeon expert, has been placing new nesting boxes in the town.

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  • Richard, earl of Cornwall granted the burgesses a guild merchant in 1268.

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  • The merchant Maiden Hospital was founded in 1695 for the education of daughters of decayed merchant burgesses of Edinburgh.

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  • The wealthiest of the merchant capitalists did side with the Royalists.

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  • Previous examinations had wrongly concluded it was either a Danish galley or a mid-nineteenth century merchant ship.

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  • Recently an investment merchant bank agreed to a substantial out of court settlement, following the disclosure that it was infringing copyright.

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  • His first ship was the Laurentic an armed merchant cruiser which was sunk by enemy action in the Irish Channel.

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  • Dave has been unemployed for a number of years and is naturally delighted when he gets a job working for a timber merchant.

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  • Most requirements are met by a selection of devices such as a microcontroller plus an ASIC plus discrete parts including merchant semiconductor devices.

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  • In the second, the producers were also dispossessed but produced at home on orders from a capitalist merchant.

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  • Such losses seem disproportionate to an attack on merchant shipping not engaged in vital supply work.

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  • As a hospital ship she would be manned by a merchant service crew and wear the red ensign.

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  • After the lecture Richard took course participants on a tour of the " Cutty Sark " to view its large collection of merchant figureheads.

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  • The registered tonnage of Britain's ships was greater than the rest of the world's merchant fleets combined.

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  • A corn and butter merchant, David Lewis, of Bridge Street, opposed the new Act and built up a sizable following.

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  • If you have not tried a red Beaume then gird your loins, grit your teeth and demand supplies from your local wine merchant.

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  • Shylock is indeed a ruthless man, but it is clear that he has been much goaded by the merchant Antonio.

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  • The figure is not longer simply of a man who finds, but of " a merchant seeking goodly pearls.

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  • Some of the ' quarters ' were centered around the merchant guilds of the district.

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  • Anyone who went to sea in merchant ships between 1939 and 1945 will find this volume at once exhilarating and yet heart-rending.

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  • She became an intimate friend of a Frenchwoman named Prote, the wife of a merchant who lived with the chief huntsman.

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  • It was from here that some Italian internees were sent to Canada on the merchant vessel Arandora Star.

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  • Claudia Seferius has successfully inveigled her way into marriage with a wealthy Roman wine merchant.

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  • The worried merchant stood up and bowed low before the bailiff.

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  • Both Acciona Trasmediterránea and Spainâs merchant marine authority have refused to comment on the new regulations.

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  • You may contact the Veterans Agency direct or our own Head Office or the merchant mariners for help in applying for the badge.

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  • Born in 1964, my father was a master mariner in the Greek merchant navy.

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  • Trade wares as a merchant, drink rum with yer mateys, or battle ship-to-ship in this hearty, accessible pirate world.

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  • Then a local builder's merchant built a hall on the far side, closing up the open view across the pit.

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  • That job also involved a lengthy trip to get parts from the plumbers ' merchant.

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  • Contact a builder merchant directly or search using the internet.

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  • John Hustler died 1790 A Bradford Quaker and wool merchant.

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  • The solicitor I used was not really a rip-off merchant he was just an ordinary solicitor making a healthy profit like most other solicitors.

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  • White's Directory of Suffolk lists him as a corn miller and coal and corn merchant.

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  • There should be a merchant with a large mustache.

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  • The breadth of papers on the merchant navy pointed to the vitality of research on the topic.

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  • Flexible transaction limits When you apply for a Nochex Merchant account your transaction limits are fully negotiable.

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  • Anthony's breath is slightly furred by Beaujolais nouveau - he's a wine merchant.

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  • These months have seen the new building of merchant ships which substantially outweigh the losses.

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  • This supporter was Richard Mulcaster, the great pedagogue, head of the famous schools of Merchant Taylor's and St. Paul's.

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  • He marr. and had a son James who entered prentice to James Home, merchant, 7th Feb. 1677.

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  • A charming former merchant town, Hoi An is a wonderfully preserved architectural wonder combining Chinese, Japanese and European influences.

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  • On the streets of Spitalfields, some of the houses created by these merchant princes stand today.

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  • Later in the same year she was transferred to Calm Isle Shipping Ltd of Hong Kong and her name reverted to Oriental Merchant.

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  • It also took off the British merchant sailors who had been captured, by December over 300 of them.

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  • A wood merchant who lived in Sunnyside worked the sawmill on the road to Minto (where Oliver Brothers yard is today ).

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  • The merchant is informed of a successful transaction via either email or through a cgi script which could do almost anything.

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  • Thomas Creevey, the son of William Creevey, a merchant sea captain, was born in Liverpool on 5th March, 1768.

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  • Once the country home of a Glasgow tea merchant this is now a stunning 4 star luxury seafront hotel.

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  • In his non-political life he was a fruit merchant and a founder shareholder of the Cumnock Municipal Bank.

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  • Around about the last week in July, the trawler Ayrshire arrived, bringing with her three merchant ships.

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  • Many foreign warships are also represented in the merchant shipbuilder collections.

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  • Brown started his career in merchant shipping, working his way up the ranks.

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  • They were hosted on the Guardian website, and also featured his Extras co-writer Stephen Merchant and regular radio sidekick Karl Pilkington.

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  • At sea from the age of 12 he commanded slave ships and merchant ships until, .. .

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  • Some 800 skilled aircraft spotters went to sea in Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships to take part in the ' Invasion of Europe ' .

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  • The Moidart was an armed merchant steamship of 1878 tons - she was also built in 1878!

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  • Miva Merchant enables you to create multiple online storefronts and support e-commerce on a domain.

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  • Protx is fully integrated with Miva Merchant, a truly world class storefront database driven ecommerce application, used by over 100,000 merchants worldwide.

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  • Has the Merchant understood the subtext of his story, or is it simply a fabliau about a bad wife to him?

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  • The merchant tailors put on a magnificent banquet for him.

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  • He also organized amateur theatricals, directing an all Pakistani cast in a touring production of The Merchant of Venice.

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  • Problems can arise when the customer writes to the merchant to cancel the recurring transaction but the request is ignored.

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  • This included looking extensively for an imaginary island that had been reported by the captain of a merchant vessel.

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  • He was educated in Coventry, became a successful merchant, travelled widely throughout Europe, and for several years was the financial agent of Charles I.

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  • He was maltreated by the leading boyars whom successive revolutions placed at the head of affairs, and hence he conceived an inextinguishable hatred of their whole order and a corresponding fondness for the merchant class, their natural enemies.

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  • The distinctive object of the Federal Act, as defined in the measure itself, is to provide machinery for dealing with industrial disputes extending beyond any one state, examples of which were furnished by the first two important cases submitted to the court - the one concerning the merchant marine of Australia, and the other the sheep shearers, both of which were heard in 1907.

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  • After the expulsion of the duke of Athens in 1343, and the great plague of 1348, the Florentine proletariate rose up against the merchant princes.

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  • Under these conditions, it is no longer possible for the individual merchant, or for small groups of merchants, to acquaint themselves, by personal experience alone, with more than a fractional part of the causes which affect the business in which they are engaged.

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  • Events in the most distant countries, industrial and commercial movements at first sight unrelated to the concerns of the individual merchant, now exert a direct and immediate influence upon his interests.

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  • The new synagogue was built by Rosengarten between 1857 and 1859, and to the same architect is due the sepulchral chapel built for the Hamburg merchant prince Johann Heinrich, Freiherr von Schroder (1784-1883), in the churchyard of the Petrikirche.

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  • In 1215 a charter from John instituted a gild merchant with freedom from toll throughout the land.

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  • A new Small Holdings Act (1907) for England was passed; the Trades Disputes Act (1906) removed the position of trades unions from the controversy excited over the Taff Vale decision; Mr LloydGeorge's Patents Act (1907) and Merchant Shipping Act (1906) were welcomed by the tariff reformers as embodying their own policy; a long-standing debate was closed by the passing of the Deceased Wife's Sister Act (1907); and acts for establishing a public trustee, a court of criminal appeal, a system of probation for juvenile offenders, and a census of production, were passed in 1907.

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  • Disorders and conspiracies against the merchant oligarchy continued, and although they were unsuccessful party passion was incredibly bitter, and the exiles caused the republic much trouble by intriguing against it in foreign states.

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  • He was again in Jamaica from 1787 to 1792, when he settled in England as a West India merchant, making in 1795 another futile attempt to enter parliament, on this occasion as the representative of Southampton.

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  • His wife, Margaret Duncan, the daughter of a Manchester merchant, was a woman of kindred tastes, and their union was entirely happy.

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  • McGillivray was polished in manners, of cultivated intellect, was a shrewd merchant, and a successful speculator; but he had many savage traits, being noted for his treachery, craftiness and love of barbaric display.

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  • After spending a short time in Paris, where he was disgusted with the excesses of the Jacobins, he settled at Marseilles and married Mlle Julie Clary, daughter of a merchant of that town.

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  • Naturally, the merchant resents any developments which exclude him, and some mild forms of boycott have occasionally been instituted.

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  • It is known that he left a widow with two children; and one or two hints scattered throughout his works inform us that he began life as a merchant's clerk in Antwerp, that he travelled in Poland, Denmark and other parts of northern Europe, and that he was intimate with Prince Maurice of Orange, who asked his advice on many occasions, and made him a public officer - at first director of the so-called "waterstaet," and afterwards quartermaster-general.

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  • His father, whose name also was William, began life as an apprentice to a fitter, in which service he obtained the freedom of Newcastle, becoming a member of the gild of Hoastmen (coal-fitters); later in life he became a principal in the business, and attained a respectable position as a merchant in Newcastle, accumulating property worth nearly £ 20,000.

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  • The earliest of these to appear was his defence of religious liberty, in the Epistola de Tolerantia, addressed to Limborch, published at Gouda in the spring of 1689, and translated into English in autumn by William Popple, a Unitarian merchant in London.

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  • Philip was sent to his father's childless brother Romolo, a merchant at San Germano, a Neapolitan town near the base of Monte Cassino, to assist him in his business, and with the hope that he might inherit his possessions.

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  • A similar fable of an original choice, in which the chooser is beguiled by appearances, recurs in Africa and North America (see the caskets in the Merchant of Venice).

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  • He took the bag of money and handed it to the merchant.

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  • A bloodstained knife was found under the old merchant's pillow.

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  • Now it happened that in the group was the very man who had killed the other merchant.

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  • Set in the offices of a fictional Slough paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television program.

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  • To start with you need to use treated sawn timber from a builders merchant.

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  • A wood merchant who lived in Sunnyside worked the sawmill on the road to Minto (where Oliver Brothers yard is today).

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  • The New Yorker was less kind, dubbing him a ' schlock merchant '.

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  • One day a scrap merchant came looking for unwanted items.

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  • Merchant seamen faced the daily risk of U-boat attack.

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  • Many foreign warships are also represented in the Merchant Shipbuilder collections.

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  • Some 800 skilled aircraft spotters went to sea in Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships to take part in the ' Invasion of Europe '.

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  • The Moidart was an armed merchant steamship of 1878 tons - she was also built in 1878 !

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  • The Regal estate agents, in a 17th-century merchant 's house opposite the Spar has elaborately swagged curtains.

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  • Underlying the dd in Merchant Case Management Services, Inc. the united.

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  • In 1770 he married Mary Norris, daughter of a wealthy merchant.

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  • Alternatively call your local posh restaurant or wine merchant.

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  • She was born in Exeter in 1733, her dad was a wool merchant, not very successful, he went bust.

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  • These are taken from open-sea zooplankton collected by means of merchant ship continuous plankton recorders.

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  • You may have to wait until after the baby's birth to get the actual name, but monogramming and personalization services rarely take longer than a couple of weeks (be sure and check with the merchant to find out how long it will be).

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  • It's important to be an informed consumer and vet the merchant as thoroughly as possible before risking a large investment in a gown that may or may not meet your expectations.

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  • Check to see if the merchant offers guarantees or refunds if something goes wrong.

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  • If you need your gift basket to be delivered to your recipient on a certain day, make certain the merchant you choose can deliver on time.

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  • It is not just an issue of finding what you want, it is also about finding the right merchant.

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  • Always view such deals with a critical eye, especially if you do not know the merchant.

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  • They also provide direct links to purchase the items from the lowest priced merchant.

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  • Each merchant's policy may vary on what happens if merchandise arrives damaged, missing or in the wrong size or color.

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  • This is an Authorize.net verified merchant and they offer free Fed-Ex shipping on all orders within the United States that come to $200.00 or more.

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  • You sign up for e-mails that alert you when a certain merchant has gift cards in stock if there's a certain store you are waiting for.

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  • This site also contains seasonal and holiday gift guides in addition to product and merchant ratings.

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  • Several filters allow users to refine product searches by price, merchant rating, brand, and more.

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  • Users can easily browse nearby merchant pricing as well as online store pricing for a particular product.

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  • Its origins are not specifically known, but it is believed that some of the breed's ancestors traveled on merchant ships from Europe to America as mousers.

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  • All machines should be able to be programmed to reach different merchant accounts.

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  • When you are ready to purchase a machine, think about going through your merchant account provider.

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  • With a debit card, you can take cash out of your account from either an ATM machine or from the merchant accepting the card.

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  • The merchant swipes the card using a secure encrypted messaging protocol (SEMP).

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  • A message is then sent back to the merchant either verifying or declining the request.

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  • Without a merchant account it is impossible to accept anything beyond cash or a check.

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  • Once you have submitted an application for a merchant account it usually takes anywhere from 24 hours to two weeks for the set-up to be processed.

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  • After signing up and getting approved for a merchant account, you will be subject to certain fees.

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  • Choosing a gift card from a partner merchant.

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  • A different virtual account number is used for each merchant, guaranteeing that even if someone did gain access to your information from one website, they would not be able to use it elsewhere.

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  • They can process a chargeback to the merchant who accepted the lost or stolen card.

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  • A merchant account is usually easy to obtain, though it typically takes 1-2 weeks for a merchant application to be approved.

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  • The processor is the merchant's connection to the bank or financial institution who issued the card.

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  • The bank then declines or approves the amount being charged, and then sends a message back to the processor, who in turn communicates this message to the machine and the merchant.

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  • Financial institutions, banks, superstores, and other companies that sell rather than specialize in merchant accounts aren't as up-to-date as companies that specialize in processing.

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  • The quote you receive will probably be confusing-especially if you have never set up a merchant account before.

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  • Merchant-Specific Rewards - Various merchants, such as Amazon.com, Starbucks, and Disney offer rewards cards through Bank One which allow cardholders to earn rewards specific to the merchant.

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  • How easily does it integrate with your merchant accounts?

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  • Merchant Services - This customer service team assists merchants with issues pertaining to accepting the American Express card at their businesses.

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  • Signing up for the merchant service allows customers to pay with an American Express Card.

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  • American Express Merchant Services will provide your business with visible decals to display to let customers know that your business accepts American Express cards.

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  • This alone is a good reason to consider signing up for the merchant service.

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  • Check out the various online merchant account offerings before you apply.

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  • Some online applications for a merchant account include Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express.

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  • Financial institutions that offer merchant accounts usually send a paper copy of your account statement each month.

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  • In addition to paying per transaction fees, there is usually a monthly fee charged for maintaining your merchant account.

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  • Before you apply for a merchant account, consider the type of business that you own and the transactions you are likely to process.

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  • Small business owners must also consider what type of processing terminals they need and order them once their merchant account applications are accepted.

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  • Consider whether you wish to accept Discover Card and American Express transactions and find out whether this option is included on your merchant account application.

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  • As a merchant, accepting the Ultimate debit card offers many advantages.

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  • Merchant Accounts Express - Again, for a monthly fee, Merchant Accounts Express offer free access to Authorize.net, an online payment gateway.

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  • Account monitoring - Card Service International offers its Alpena Merchant account holders account-monitoring services.

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  • The Loss Prevention department monitors merchant accounts for unusual transaction activity.

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  • Some merchant account applications include your interest in Discover and American Express while others do not.

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  • The companies that manage merchant accounts can provide you with an online gateway to manage your account and either send you copies of your monthly statements in the mail or allow you to download them online.

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  • As long as a merchant keeps good records of their transactions, including detail tapes from cash registers or information from an online purchase, they will usually be able to settle any chargeback inquiry.

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  • Return Protection - If you return an item within ninety days of purchase and the merchant won't take it back, American Express will refund the full purchase price, up to $300 per item.

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  • It is important to weigh all your options before applying for a merchant account.

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  • Usually the only cost associated with purchasing a card through a merchant is the cost of the balance you place on the card, but read the terms of the purchase before you buy.

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  • While the CashPoints Debit Card can only be used with merchants participating in the Interlink point of sale and ATM system, the NCSECU Visa Check Card can be used with any merchant accepting Visa cards.

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  • Merchant protection - The buyer is protected financially against merchants who do not fully deliver the product or service with the price and quality as originally advertised.

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  • If you're looking for online merchant account services, Orange County's E-Commerce Exchange (ECX) might be the best solution for you, no matter where you are located or what type of business you operate.

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  • Instead of having to get your merchant account from one company and your payment processing solution from another, you can rely on EXC for both.

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  • Merchant account - Relationship with bank that allows the company to accept electronic payments.

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  • High approval rate - More than 99 percent of companies that apply for merchant accounts through EXC are approved.

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  • This is significantly higher than the bank approval rate for new merchant accounts, which averages between 60 and 70 percent.

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  • Speedy merchant account setup - EXC customers can expect their merchant accounts to be established in five to seven business days.

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  • This is significantly less time than it can take to set up a merchant account through a bank.

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  • It's not uncommon for banks to take between 15 and 45 days to establish new merchant accounts.

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  • If you're interested in opening a merchant account with E-Commerce Exchange of Orange County, you can apply online or submit a request for pre-qualification.

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  • If you're interested in finding out how merchant account services Orange County can benefit your business, fill out an online information request form or call 800-418-9285.

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  • Merchant gift cards can be a great way to allow recipients the option to pick their own gifts at their leisure.

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  • Whether or not the gift card is reloadable is up to the merchant selling the card.

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  • While some merchants only sell gift cards in specific denominations, other merchants allow the purchasers to designate the amount of the gift as long as it falls within the merchant's minimum and maximum allowable amounts.

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  • Too often, recipients discovered that even though the merchant gift cards they received were for a certain amount, the balance was quickly depleted from fees or the card had expired altogether before they could fully use its value.

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  • During the holiday season, merchant gift cards become extremely popular purchases among gift givers.

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  • If you want to purchase a gift card for someone - and know what specific store the recipient prefers - it isn't difficult to discover whether or not the merchant offers gift cards.

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  • Look online at the merchant's website or call the company to find out if gift cards are available for purchase.

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  • You may want to think twice before purchasing a gift card if a merchant wants you to pay a fee for simply purchasing a gift card, and not just the balance you want to load on to the card.

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  • In some situations, you can visit the same merchant to add to the card, such as your local bank.

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  • The cheaper the processing, however, the fewer features that may be available to the merchant.

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  • For example, a cardholder may earn enough bonus points to purchase a $25 merchant gift card.

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  • Reloading funds - Find a card that allows you a convenient way to reload funds such as at a local merchant, by transferring funds from your bank account or by direct deposit.

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  • Small businesses can often reap the benefits of opening up small business merchant accounts.

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  • Small business merchant accounts can be opened up with any type of money lender.

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  • There are several important things to look out for when selecting the best merchant account.

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  • If the merchant account does not accept one or more of these payment methods, it may be best to find a better provider of merchant account services.

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  • While retail merchant accounts commonly offer the lowest fees, they can be relentless when it comes to charging a portion of your sales to cover the cost.

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  • A small business merchant account can help you to do this with minimal fees, if you select the right account.

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  • The company's vast line of products helps ensure that 98 percent of those who apply for a merchant account through Merchant Services are accepted.

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  • Check readers allow the merchant to process paper checks for customers at a faster rate.

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  • Merchant Services offers Vivopay products.

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  • Businesses that wish to open a merchant account with the company can do so by printing an application from the Merchant Service's website and then faxing it back to the company.

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  • This includes virtual terminal, merchant accounts, echeck services, point of sale swipers, recurring billing options and other features.

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  • Unlike many other merchant gift cards, these cards are reloadable, so they can be used repeatedly as long as the balance is replenished.

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  • Not every merchant accepts Discover cards, although the number of merchants accepting Discover cards for purchases increases as the popularity of this card increases.

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  • How do you know if your Discover card will be accepted for purchases with a particular merchant?

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  • Look first at the signs at the entrance of the merchant's store, or on the main website for the merchant.

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  • Seeing signs for Visa and MasterCard, but not for Discover, does not necessarily guarantee that the merchant does not accept Discover.

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  • Use the card for purchases with any merchant where Visa debit cards are accepted.

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  • Select merchant purchases can earn the cardholder as much as 10 percent cash back when they make them through the Chase online shopping tool.

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  • Gift cards are sold at other retailers offering a wide variety of merchant gift cards.

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  • You can use the tool there to find a local merchant selling these gift cards.

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  • With so many retailers offering gift cards to the public, it can be overwhelming to select one merchant from which to buy cards from for your needs.

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  • A simple way to spot a phishing email is to roll your cursor over a link you get in an email which has been presented to you as purportedly from your financial institution or an online merchant.

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  • Perhaps best known for outstanding customer service, Merchant One has been in business for over ten years and has won plenty of awards to show for it.

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  • This means that you can walk up to an item containing a barcode and, if the merchant allows electronic payments, pay for it using your phone.

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  • The colonies meant further increased income and further development of the merchant class, but they also meant that Britain suddenly had access to exotic goods from around the world.

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  • Cotton merchant Andrew Low built this home on Lafayette Square between 1848 and 1849.

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  • The easiest way is to set up a Paypal merchant account to accept payments.

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  • If you already have a shopping cart full of items ready to be purchased, you time will be better spent searching for a specific merchant code.

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  • If your account is approved by CIT Bank, N.A., you will return to the checkout at the merchant's website to complete the purchase.

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  • If your account is declined, you will still return to the merchant's website to make payment via another method.

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  • You may find a merchant in more than one category because they sell merchandise in both of those categories.

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  • Other character roles, such as being a merchant, pirate, smuggler, or pilot are also available.

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  • Just click on the merchant and see all the codes affiliated with them at that time.

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  • If you would rather buy through a local merchant, the best place to look for color changing stress balls is an office supply store.

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  • In addition, if you receive the order and there is a problem with them, you can simply visit the store rather than dealing with shipping it back to an online merchant.

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  • Here is the wide selection of packages available to you from Party Merchant.

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  • This merchant sells a wide variety of beautiful gowns in every color imaginable.

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  • The Knot - this merchant offers a variety of colorful bridesmaid dresses that can work just as well as a wedding dress - at a fraction of the cost.

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  • This merchant sells halter, strapless, A-line, columnar styles and more.

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  • Destination Wedding Gowns - this merchant offers a variety of white couture gowns that are perfect for brides everywhere.

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  • Be sure to check the merchant, as prices do vary.

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  • At this time he also managed a few pop groups, including the moderately successful band Suede.While working in radio, Gervais hired an assistant named Stephen Merchant.

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  • The Office started out as a short film by Stephen Merchant.

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  • The station negotiated with Gervais and Merchant for a six-episode run.

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  • Gervais and Merchant produce the U.S. version and have written one episode together.

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  • Walker dropped out of school at age 16 and joined the U.S. Merchant Marine.

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  • Any online merchant selling used books, such as Amazon.com and Alibris, should also offer a selection of used college textbooks.

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  • Depending on whether or not you choose a mail order merchant or a local jeweler, the process will be roughly the same.

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  • L'Inde Le Palais is another high-end merchant.

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  • If you buy a jewelry box online, make sure the merchant has a return policy and allows refunds just in case the item isn't as described or arrives damaged.

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  • This is especially important when shopping online because the terms vary vastly from merchant to merchant.

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  • If the terms are only available in a foreign language for an online merchant, be sure to get an accurate translation before making a purchase.

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  • This merchant carries an extensive line of EO products, although availability may vary from one store to another.

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  • A good middle ground option is to use a merchant that allows basket customization, where the purchaser can pick products from a menu of items.

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  • Remember to explore each merchant's website to see if they offer any specials that would save you money on your purchase.

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  • Anarchy offers a 30 day guarantee on their products, so keep this in mind when you shop, particularly when purchasing from an online merchant.

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  • Before purchasing online it is best to investigate the merchant's return policy and history of satisfied customers.

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  • Fast travel to Kvatch and seek the orc merchant or to Silver Road in Cyrodill and seek the merchant in green clothing.

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  • He can't charge what you don't have!Lyle also has some sort of "arrangement" with Crazy Redd, the traveling merchant whose members only service can net you some unique furniture.

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  • Buying wine online lacks the same level of personal service you enjoy by building a relationship with your local wine merchant.

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  • Try pairing a wine book with a bottle of wine that the book recommends or make a gift basket with various wine accessories you can purchase at your local wine merchant or department store.

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  • This Sonoma County, California wine is easily found at your local wine merchant or grocery store.

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  • Second thing to keep in mind when you are purchasing wine is to consult your local wine merchant.

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  • Use resources available to you-classes, books, advice of your wine merchant, and opportunities to learn with your friends.

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  • On the other hand, if you purchase the item from a merchant or other sports enthusiast, and the price is pretty steep, you should have the item appraised by someone who is well known in the appraising field.

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  • It finally became "Ellis Island" in 1776, when New York merchant Sam Ellis purchased it.

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  • The remoteness of the island made it a perfect detention center for enemy merchant seamen captured during World War II.

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  • A merchant seaman, Peterssen had been detained at Ellis Island for some time.

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  • The idea of a corset top dress has its origins in the clothing of Renaissance peasant and merchant women, where the bodice was worn over the dress.

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  • Prices for votive candles vary from less than $1 to more than $3 each depending on the merchant, the quantity ordered, and the quality of the candles.

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  • Orders of over 500 will receive a full color front logo and organization title, and you'll also be provided with a merchant signup sheet to get businesses on board.

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  • Merchant Overstock has everything you need to decorate your home for the holidays, including affordable Christmas trees.

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  • While you may be able to find just the right loose stone at a local merchant's facility, you could have access to more choices by shopping online.

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  • Be sure to check the merchant's credentials carefully and ask about appraisal and grading report information.

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  • Many wholesale dealers operate online stores, making it easy and convenient to locate a reputable merchant.

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  • Because no merchant wants a poor reputation, most online jewelry stores offer a variety of desirable features to help couples choose the best jewelry for their budget, style preferences, and other considerations.

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  • Even if a ring may seem less expensive from an online merchant, couples should investigate shipping costs and other associated expenses before gauging the final price.

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  • With an extensive selection of classic engagement rings, this nationwide merchant offers not only beautiful designs, but also superior customer service and convenient purchase options to suit every couple.

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  • As with any jewelry purchase, however, it is important to carefully investigate the merchant's guarantees and policies before committing to buy.

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  • As with any jewelry purchase, couples should be aware of the merchant's guarantee and return policies, shipping charges, and other potential fees that can impact the price of the ring.

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  • When shopping online for a Celtic trinity knot white gold engagement ring or any other piece of jewelry, be sure you deal with a trusted merchant.

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  • As with any online purchase, be careful to buy from a reputable merchant.

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  • You'll find mid-level designers whose creativity is sparked by a high-end bag, and you'll also find department store and mass merchant store brands that have cute styles that mimic runway looks for much less.

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  • Amazon is both a merchant and a host of other merchants.

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  • Your purchase is covered by the same Amazon A to Z Guarantee, and the monetary transaction goes through Amazon, so the merchant never sees your account information.

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  • Amazon takes a commission from the merchant, and you receive a rock-bottom price.

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  • His rugged good looks were marred by a patch on his face from losing his eye during a brawl in the merchant marines.

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  • Global Merchant Travel Blog - Global Merchant is of interest in that it is a travel blog where various deals that are available from different carriers are listed.

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  • He examined the Geneva rubies that had been sold by an unknown merchant and realized that he would be able to recrystalize finely ground aluminum oxide into a large gemstone.

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  • An excellent online merchant of these and other brands of vintage watches is the Antique Watch Company, UK.

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  • Additionally, a certified merchant will always be there if you experience problems with your watch.

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  • The only way to protect yourself is to ensure that the merchant you are purchasing your replicas from has some things in place to keep you, the buyer, safe and satisfied with their product.

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