There is no country in the world , in my opinion , that can give a better chance to a boy in the merchant marine than this country can . I should say I belong here . I have been here thirty years now . When we have the ships here you ...
Author: United States. Merchant Marine Commission
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ISBN: UOM:39015021117851
Category: Merchant marine
Page: 772
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Enter Boy . Boy . I could overtake the coach , fir , no sooner . Captain . The coach ! what coach ? Boy . The lady Loveall's Сptain . The lady Loveall's ! Why , what had you to do with her coach ? Boy . I went to give her the letter ...
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ISBN: UOM:39015006997582
Category: English drama
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He died in 1723 , and bequeathed £ 12,000 to endow an hospital for the maintenance and education of boys . Those who were qualified for admission were sons and grandsons of merchants , burgesses , and guild brothers , or ministers of ...
Author: Sir Thomas Jamieson BOYD
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ISBN: BL:A0024018703
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Page: 22
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In that they have been eminently successful , but they have not been so successful in training boys to the merchant service . Captain Wilson has lately pointed out that for the most part these boys when they leave the training - ships ...
Author: Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey
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ISBN: HARVARD:32044055042485
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Page: 338
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Next year twenty - nine boys came , and the numbers were 369. Then the change came ; the twenty - nine boys were withdrawn , and the Merchant Company's schools began to act ; and the result was , that we had 301 boys ,that is ...
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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ISBN: HARVARD:32044106495443
Category: Bills, Legislative
Page: 800
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He there saw some beautiful boys who had just been brought by a slave - merchant , boys with a fair skin and long fair hair , as English boys then would have .. He asked from what part of the world they came , and whether they were ...
Author: Edward Augustus Freeman
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ISBN: STANFORD:36105048747187
Category: Great Britain
Page: 371
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a little land; we also hear of him selling the meat of his cattle in the Prato market-place, with his boy, Francesco, cutting up the meat. He died in 1348, the year of the Great Plague, which also carried off his wife, Monna Vermiglia, ...
Author: Iris Origo
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780241303818
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 400
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Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of Iris Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later Middle Ages. In 1870 the whole astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. Iris Origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance. The book is rightly celebrated as one of the most engrossing of all modern books on Italian life and history.Then two other boys , as olive - merchants , presented themselves . " Are you olive - merchants ? " said the sham cadi . " Tell me how long olives will keep to be fit to cat ? " " Sir , " replied the two merchants , " take all the care ...
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ISBN: NLI:2796804-10
Category: Folklore
Page: 378
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This arises from the reluctance of captains to take boys whom they would have to teach before they could be of any service on ... a de- scription of a school for boys intended for the merchants ' service , which had been established at ...
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ISBN: OSU:32435051157790
Category: Commerce
Page: 570
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