He had issued a decree prohibiting the marriage of priests, excommunicating all clergymen who retained their wives, declaring such unlawful commerce to be fornication, and rendering it criminal in the laity to attend divine worship, when such profane priests officiated at the altar

Meanwhile the commerce of the King and the favourite was far from affording to the former all the gratification which he had anticipated from its renewal.

The leagued despots must exclude you, because you are republicans, and commerce is the conveyer of principles; they must exclude you, because by ruining your commerce they ruin your prosperity, and by ruining this they ruin your development, which is dangerous to them.

Commerce is the strongest enemy of custom, and new opportunities gave a rude shock to the conservatism both of the manor and of the village.

As surely as I believe that there is a God, so surely do I believe that commerce is the ordinance of God; that the great army of producers and distributors is God's army.

The unlawful Commerce of the Sexes is of all other the hardest to avoid; and yet there is no one which you shall hear the rigider Part of Womankind speak of with so little Mercy.

Much less would I be thought to reflect upon the fair merchant, whose liberal commerce is the prime source of national wealth.

It is easy to see what a prolific nursery of seamen this Lake commerce must be, and how valuable a resource in a war with any great naval power.

"The whole commerce between master and slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other."

Hear him.[B] "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.

Commerce had been the chief cause of the total demoralization of antiquity, and of this, they were permitted to preserve only a boat navigation."

England, then, would have respected our rights as allies; or, as our commerce was lucrative and paid profits that would cover an occasional seizure, we might have put our merchants on their guard, allowed them to arm their ships, and have temporized until the conflicting powers of the Old World had exhausted their strength, and we had grown strong enough to demand reparation.

Legitimate commerce is that department of the national welfare, in which it is the business of statesmanship to do nothing but remove the impediments of its own creating in past times.

Commerce and interchange of goods is of course a perfectly natural and healthy function of social life.

The commerce at the Cape is wine; and the vine has already increased tenfold, since the colony became British.

If commerce be the true wealth and prosperity of a nation, there never was a nation in the history of the world that possessed by nature the advantages which this country enjoys.

Commerce was another burning question and one of much more immediate concern.

It cannot be said that the oversea commerce, which amounted in 1907-8 to £241,000,000, is an unmixed benefit.

Firstly, because commerce is the convoyer of principles.

A profitable commerce between the colony and the West Indies, now that the obnoxious navigation laws were a dead letter, was created.

Differing with England on the policy which led the latter to weaken and humiliate France, jealousies sprung up between the two countries, and Dutch commerce became the object of the most vexatious and injurious efforts on the part of England.