But New York was a city of practical merchants, Tory and patriot alike, and ideas of land reform were soon forgotten in the rush of everyday affairs.
"Ideas like blowing off their propellers are just not practical," said a merchant captain docked at the Persian Gulf port of Dubai.
Merchant provides practical means and poignant stories that help you shape your ideas (purposeful, meaning driven, etc). as well as the ways in which you might connect your idea to others to watch it really take shape, if not take off.
The Statute of Acton Burnell (1283) and the Statute of Merchants (1285) showed practical concern for trade and merchants.
As far as the rest go, you wait to find out who are the wind-up merchants, the practical jokers, the extroverts and the quiet ones.
But there are a lot of merchants have practical considerations where they do not need these things".
The trade culture of the early modern period required a critical knowledge of things, and this practical focus of the merchants came to be reflected in the empirical study of the things of nature.
The practical spirit of the Dutch merchant could not fail to recognize that the way to riches was through trade with the West Indies and Africa.
In a handbook of practical wisdom written by the Florentine merchant Francesco Pegolotti in the early 14th century, some 288 spices are listed, including items like alum, used as a dye fixative.
The focus of these books on commercial rather than calligraphic scripts probably reflects their most likely consumers a merchant class in need of practical writing skill rather than a scholarly or courtly audience.
