These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

These were the ships of His Majesty's Navy, herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists.

These included the gentlemen ( local nobility ), farmers, merchants and artisans ( 士, 農, 工, 商 ).

These were: samurai, peasants, craftsmen and merchants.

These castes had a complex structure in the fragmented city states of Italy such as Genoa, Venice, Naples, Roma, Florence and Lombardy ; in some, the merchants were the nobili, in others the nobili despised the merchant caste and were agriculturalists, in yet others the nobili caste despised all work.

These tablets provide vivid evidence for the operation of a Roman fort at the edge of the Roman Empire, where officers ' wives maintained polite society while merchants, hauliers and military personnel kept the fort operational and supplied.

These gifts were intended to cement relations between the two countries, building on the trade agreement signed in 1581 that gave English merchants priority in the Ottoman region.

These measures fell most harshly on the members of the former ruling class of Spanish or Spanish-descended church officials, military officers, merchants, and hacendados ( large landowners ).

These centers welcomed foreign merchants from Persia, Arab countries, India and China.

These merchants probably also helped to speed the conversion of the general population to Islam.

These three factors motivated Dutch merchants to enter the intercontinental spice trade themselves.

These were often petty shopkeepers of urban marketplaces ; merchants such as industrialists and itinerant traders working between a network of cities could avoid registering as merchants and were often wealthier and more powerful than the vast majority of government officials.

These theses were then used as advertising pamphlets that were sent to merchants and customers.

These nomadic peoples were dependent upon neighbouring settled populations for a number of important technologies, and in addition to raiding vulnerable settlements for these commodities, also encouraged long distance merchants as a source of income through the enforced payment of tariffs.

These expeditions were formed by groups of navigators, merchants, adventurers and missionaries.

These scenes expanded far beyond the manger to include village backdrops, merchants, artisans, soldiers, even local notables.

These included not only those involved in agricultural labor and craftsmanship, but also merchants, brokers, lawyers, financiers and others providing services.

These merchants, many of whom primarily ship low-cost goods, face consumers resistant to paying exorbitant shipping costs ( often driven up by fuel surcharges, residential delivery fees, etc.

These buildings were open to the public ; merchants could sell their goods, artists could display their artwork, and religious gatherings could take place.

These people were known as tropeiros because they were traveling merchants who traded and sold goods such as meat, cotton clothes and corn flour among the cities and villages they passed by.

These coins moved north through trade between Rus merchants and the Abbasid Caliphate, along the Silver-Fur Road, and the money made by Scandinavian merchants would help northern Europe, especially Viking Scandinavia and the Carolingian Empire, as major commercial centers for the next several centuries.

These notes were not accepted by the Treasury for payment of government dues and taxes, although they were accepted for use by merchants.

These were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.

These proposals would go far toward creating the economic atmosphere favoring growth of the individual, who, in turn, would help us to cope with runaway technology.

These peoples, desperately hoping to lift themselves to decent levels of living must not, by our neglect, be forced to seek help from, and finally become virtual satellites of, those who proclaim their hostility to freedom.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

`` These recent steps do not offer the possibility of extension to the great number of senior engineers who have displayed technical competence.

These were the same subjects who were given the Rorschach test.

These suggested interpretations were given by the subjects spontaneously when they were told that there were people who reacted differently than they had.

These children have been described as those who were trying to say something to adults who did not understand.

These specialists perform valuable services by helping teachers learn to identify children who need special attention, by suggesting ways of meeting the needs of individual children in the regular classroom, and by providing clinical services for severely maladjusted children.

These people are practically always upper- or upper-middle-class persons, who attempt to act in what they regard as the interest of the entire society.

These minimum costs may come to $1 per month, more or less, for residential and small commercial customers, although they are substantially higher for large industrial users, who require more costly connections and metering devices.

These were carried out not too faithfully by Filippo Costaggini, who began by supplying the missing member to the founder of Pennsylvania and noting in pencil, in Italian, that he `` began at this point ''.

These 1750 cases were carted off in a one-night operation by the O'Banion men, who left in their stead the same number of barrels filled with water.

These concessionaires traded where they wished and generally dealt with the Indians through engages, who might be habitants, voyageurs, or even soldiers.

These included, as one, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Payne, who had checked in a little after noon the day before, and had not checked out together.

These lampoons include appealing to the authority of " a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London " and " the famous Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa " ( who had already confessed to not being from Formosa in 1706 ).

These symbols show the deep religiosity of Gaudi, who was inspired by the contemporaneous construction of his basilica to choose the theme of the holy family.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

These proclamations embodied Johnson's conciliatory policies towards the South, as well as his rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states into the union without due regard for freedmen's rights ; these positions and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with Radical Republicans who demanded harsher measures.

These were all defeated, by an opposition that included a fellow Tennessean, Isham G. Harris, who later became a bitter enemy.

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.

These arrangements were imperiled by the ill will of Alfonso XI of Castile, who was, at the time, publicly mistreating his wife.