...in der von J. Addison und R. Steele herausgegebenen Zeitschrift The Spectator; ". . . there are no more useful Members in a Commonwealth than Merchants....Nature, find Work for the Poor, add Wealth to the Rieh, and Magnificence to the Great." (J. Addison und R. Steele, The Spectator [1711 1712, 1714], hrsg....

...1711 Addison can be heard eulogizing merchants as the most useful members of the commonwealth because they 'knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse...poor, add wealth to the rich and magnificence to the great'.47 And in George Lillo's play The London Merchant, a moral tale which ran to packed houses in...

...Addison's contemporary celebration of the merchant class as most useful members of the commonwealth: They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse...the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great. Our English Merchant converts the tin of his own country into Gold, and exchanges his Wooll for Rubies. The Mahometans...

...the merchant at the inception of bourgeois mercantile capitalism in the following way. "[Merchants] knit Mankind together in a mutual Intercourse of good...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great." 36 According to this definition, the merchant has a variety of significant functions in society: as...

...papers. "Sloth," Addison gravely tells his readers, "has ruin'd more Nations than the Sword"; and again: "There are not more useful Members in a Commonwealth...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great." These mercantile statesmen-philanthropists, it would seem, did everything but make money for themselves.3...

...Britain, at the same time that our Palates are feasted with Fruits that rise between the Tropicks. s liberty is maintained and exercised in a way of...her lord, and she is to be subject to him, yet in a Merchant converts the Tin of his own Country into Gold, and exchanges his Wooll for Rubies. The Mahometans...

...represents all nations as "naturally" profiting from those British merchants who, like beneficent fathers, "knit Mankind together in a mutual Intercourse of...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great." Effecting a democracy of expenditure in which all men are created equal through their ability to purchase...

...The Fleece is the most elaborate account of this centrality. Thus Addison on merchants: "They knot mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good Offices,...the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great. Our English Merchant converts the tin of his own country in to Gold, and exchanges his Wooll for Rubies. The Mahometans...

...almost the first (and last) time, the trading classes got a good press. Merchants, beamed Addison, 'knit Mankind together in a mutual Intercourse of...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great'. l2 But if this market society was to flourish, it evidently needed credible analyses of and apologetics...

...papers: Dépendance upon one another, and be united together by their common Interest.... [Merchants] knit Mankind together in a mutual Intercourse of good...Wealth to the Rich, and Magnificence to the Great. 30 But these ideas are probably most eloquently expounded in George Lillo's tragedy, The London Merchant...