 | Voltaire - 1762 - 290 pages
...On COMMERCE and LUXURY. /COMMERCE has been better underftood in ^ France within thefe twenty years, than it had ever before been from the reign of Pharamond to that of Lewis XIV. Before this period it was a fecret art, a kind of chymiftry in the hands of three or four... | |
 | Voltaire - 1901 - 614 pages
...it, he wrote " Your most affectionate," and thus died in the bed of honor. ON COMMERCE AND LUXURY. WITHIN the last twenty years commerce has been better...communicating the secret by which they had been enriched. The body of the nation were in such profound ignorance of this important secret that we had neither... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1901 - 320 pages
...it, he wrote " Your most affectionate," and thus died in the bed of honor. ON COMMERCE AND LUXURY. WITHIN the last twenty years commerce has been better...communicating the secret by which they had been enriched. The body of the nation were in such profound ignorance of this important secret that we had neither... | |
 | Henry C. Clark - Business & Economics - 2007 - 416 pages
...Voltaire, looking back over the mostly peaceful generation since the death of le roi de guerre, wrote, "Within the last twenty years, commerce has been better...from the reign of Pharamond to that of Louis XIV." 81 In his essay on commerce and again in his lighthearted but controversial poem Le Mondain (1738,... | |
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WITHIN the last twenty years commerce has been better understood in France than it had ever before been, from the reign of Pharamond to that of Louis XIV. Before this period it was a secret art, a kind of chemistry in the hands of three or four persons,... 