Word: medici
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lecture. Three Religions: "Religio Medici," "Religio Poetae," "Religio Scriptoris." Mr. Copeland. Sever...
...Brewster read a few passages from the Religio Medici of Sir Thomas Browne. During the rest of the year on alternate meetings some prominent man will speak. President Eliot will address the Union at the next meeting...
...rapid sketch of the history of commerce from its earliest days-of the transactions of Abraham and Joseph; of the Semitic and Arabian trades-instancing Saul of Tarsus as the first Christian commercial traveler, of the commercial relations of Rome, Venice and Geneva, of the business supremacy of the Medici family in Florence. As modern examples of able business men who have achieved success in other directions are Alexander Hamilton, Warren Hastings, John Bright, William E. Gladstone. There have been no notions which have become strong and influential without commerce...