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She was very pleased to execute the commissionit made her of importance in the town, having the big boxes come down from Paris addressed to her, and she paid her journey and made a very good profit by charging two or three sous more on each article.
"They always pursue some profession or trade, by the profits of which they support themselves.
It has been estimated that the annual profits from violations of the prohibition laws have reached $300,000,000.
They have extended their scope, and in addition to the material already taken from workman and shop, from garden and farm, have also with much profit to older children used his suggestions about primitive industries.
The founders of the Republic could only learn from their errors, but it is their great merit that they had the ability to profit in the stern school of experience, of which Franklin has said that it is a "dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
"It occurs to me he is hiring those poor workmen at low wages and making a profit on all their living necessities, which he reserves the right of supplying from his own store.
The publicans, the renegades, who were farming the taxes of the Roman conquerors, and making their base profit out of their countrymen's slavery, came to him,"Master, what shall we do?"
Small profit for him in that: the next we know of him he is scandalising Handy Solomon by having a fit on the deck.
His idea of the teaching power of poetry, for to him poetry and painting both behold pleasure and profit as their common object,[420] is rhetoricaldepending on precept and exampleand attaining its true aim when it moves men to action.
There are the incentives of profit with honour, common to every speciesthough the latter can be but very imperfectly enjoyed in those other games, where the spectator is only feebly a participator.
Further, to defend the allegorical senses of poetry, which conceals a pith of profit under a pleasant rind, Harington explains fully how Demosthenes, Bishop Fisher, and the Prophet Nathan enforced their arguments by allegorical stories.
He asked, "What arts, sciences, schools of learning, or manufactures have been promoted by any now in authority?" The governor's beaver trade with Indians, in which he thought more of his profits than the lives of his subjects on the frontier, was not forgotten.
We don't need the money, so if the paper pays a profit at a cent a copy we'd better cut down the price.
The result of many inquiries shows the profit per head to average not more than one and one-half reals daily.
Oh, we can figure out our paper profits into the millions.
But, unless we suppose their judgment to be subject to a prevailing bias in one direction, i.e. to be unduly optimistic as a general rule, we should expect, and in any case they must expect, profits above the ordinary in a risky industry.
Now, though there is nothing even in all these urgencies to justify a single lie or fraud, there is much to sharpen a man's wits to secure the sale of his goods,much to educate him in all manner of expedients to baffle the inquiries of customers who would be offended, if they could discover that he ever charged them the profit without which he could never meet his expenses.
"Two or three of us could have clubbed together and made a profit after selling feeding stuff at a moderate price.
Wagner was writing a gigantic work, the Nibelung Tetralogy, which, he was convinced, would never yield a penny's profit during his lifetime.
So that although pioneer conditions gradually passed away, and it became less easy to wrest a living from plain or mountain or mine, the idea of finding out what was wrong, improving methods of agriculture, conserving the forest wealth by continual replanting or working the less rich mines at a profit through new processes, or the utilization of by-products, did not at first suggest itself.
My object in going to the south, was to engage in making and burning brick; but not immediately succeeding, I engaged in no business of much profit until late in the winter, when I took charge of a set of hands and went to work.
Yet this shrub, so simple and so useful, is delivered to the community of this country, so surcharged with duties and profits beyond its original cost, that, did it contain all the mischievous qualities that are opposed to its real virtues, it could not be more strictly guarded from general use.
He bound them to buy all that they had need of at his shop, so that he made profit off them on both sides.
When these circumstances are duly weighed, it will be perceived, that although profit may be correctly analyzed into interest and wages of superintendance, we ought not to lay it down as the law of interest, that it is profits minus the wages of superintendance.
He continued his operations with increasing violence and increasing profits up to the fourth anniversary of the tragedy.