Sentences with phrase «wealthy merchant»

Thus, the use of loans in these case will equally play a vital role in determining if you can join the world class of wealthy merchants or not.

It's lined by beautiful buildings and houses dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, once owned by wealthy merchants.

In ancient times, the island was a crossroads for pilgrims, mariners, and wealthy merchants from three continents.

Hundreds of actors in period clothing animate the streets during summer, playing the roles of 18th century wealthy merchants, destitute soldiers, and shopkeepers.

I Glasgow here in Scotland in the 1860's the minister of Cambridge Street United Presbyterian Church in Glasgow led wealthy merchants and manufacturers to a more palatial church in the west end, a scribe chalked on the door of the new building on the opening day:

Full of hopes and dreams, she has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt (Hassell).

He's not only a corrupt schemer but lascivious as they come, which spells bad news for Cassia (Emily Browning), the pouty - lipped daughter of wealthy merchant Lucretius (Jared Harris) and his wife Aurelia (Carrie - Anne Moss).

In simple words, a loan can change your life from the little zeros you have in your pocket to a rick wealthy merchant.

Interested in learning about the time of the Vikings (late 8th century to the mid-11th century) and the German Hanseatic League of wealthy merchant traders during the 13th to 15th centuries, we visited picturesque towns in Scandinavia, like Copenhagen, Denmark; Tallinn, Estonia; and Bergen, Norway and experienced firsthand the gilded grandeur of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Historically speaking, royal families, religious oligarchs as well as wealthy merchants and traders have been the main source of patronage for the past few hundred years.

Windyhill, in Kilmacolm, 29 miles from Glasgow, is a sprawling property commissioned by Mackintosh's friend and patron, wealthy merchant William Davidson in 1900.

These resources give background information, site maps and photos of The Old Merchant's House and Row 111 House which are two seventeenth - century houses built by wealthy merchants.

Best business hotel: Built in the first decade of the 20th century, Ryan Mansion occupies the former home of James Ryan, one of Newfoundland's wealthiest merchants.

The collecting of precious pearls, jade, antiques, calligraphy, and paintings is a highly specialized business which caters to royalty and wealthy merchants and requires great skill and experience.

Muhammed was the son of a wealthy merchant.

If he had chosen great kings, successful and wealthy merchants, wise men with their knowledge of the stars, it would be easy to think that these people, of their own virtue and understanding, accomplished on their own the blessing which God asked them to complete.

century, led by members of the wealthy merchant class, Florence became a gathering center for artists and intellectuals that eventually led to the birth of the Renaissance.

In 79 A.D., Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily Browning), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator.

Along the way, Milo catches the eye of a wealthy merchant's daughter named Cassia (Emily Browning), who's betrothed to the smarmy Senator Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland), the very man responsible for slaughtering his people.

The film spends over an hour in the arena, while giving us a barely passable love story that consists of long gazes from the distance between Milo and Cassia (Emily Browning), the daughter of a wealthy merchant, and foreboding crane shots from Pompeii to Mount Vesuvius, reminding us that, yes, there is a volcano and it will blow the hell up.

Set in 79 A.D., POMPEII tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily Browning), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator.

In a swashbuckling adventure set in the 1720s, dire circumstances propel two girls - a wealthy merchant's daughter from England and her father's Jamaican slave - into a life of piracy.

Goodman dives in with the standard 4 A.M. wake up call that almost all Tudor denizens answered, and moves on through the day, touching on the lives of everyone from the lowliest peasant to the wealthiest merchants and royals.

He insisted on being a cocky little blond, a wealthy merchant's son.

In Avery's Bartered Bride, the wealthy merchant Robert Wardwell seeks an aristocratic bride.

Set in the rigid society of 17th - century Amsterdam, this jewel box of a debut follows a young wife after her marriage to a wealthy merchant.

Eighteen - year - old Petronella «Nella» Oortman is the shy new bride of an enigmatic and wealthy merchant, Johannes Brandt, but too often she finds herself alone in her new, unfriendly household.

Experts disagree, but many believe the painting depicts Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, the Florentine wife of a wealthy merchant.

There was politically savvy Samuel Adams, a failed businessman and part - time brewer, and the wealthy merchant John Hancock.

The story begins as 18 - year - old Nella Oortman arrives at the home of her wealthy merchant husband, Johannes Brandt.

7) Sam Kee's revenge: The world's shallowest commercial building is located in Vancouver, B.C. Between 1903 and 1913, city planners expropriated 24 feet of land from the Sam Kee Company (one of the wealthiest merchant's in Chinatown in the early 1900s), so the firm decided to make the most out of the space.

Favored targets are tourists, expatriates, and the wealthy merchant class although any person with something valuable is a possibility.

Funding was provided by a wealthy merchant, Peter Faneuil, for the construction and local artisan to create the grasshopper weather vane that still perches on the building's cupola.

Designed by the renowned architect William Playfair as a family town house for a wealthy merchant, this traditional Georgian building, built in 1820, has been tastefully refurbished.

The first Monterey - style adobe in California was built on State Street of Santa Barbara by the wealthy merchant Alpheus Thompson.

Ariel House is an historic listed Victorian Mansion built in 1850 for a wealthy merchant.

Villa Rufolo was built in the 13th century by a wealthy merchant family.

Its narrow streets are scattered with graceful villas, built by wealthy merchants and aristocrats, and the surrounding hills are...

On Their Merry Way is a unique path building game for 2 - 5 players, who take on the role of Robin Hood's Merry Men, setting traps along the trails of Sherwood Forest and trying to fool the wealthy merchants during their travels.

Hoping to attend one of the banquets held every night in Yoshiwara, you, daughter to a wealthy merchant, enter the pleasure district with the bodyguard Musashi Takenouchi at your side.

In 1839, the Mexican governor of California granted the ranch to Tiburcio Tapia, who was a wealthy merchant from Los Angeles.

Augustine Heard, a wealthy merchant who worked the China trade route and who was the son of an Ipswich distiller, bought the house in 1865 and soon thereafter turned it into a rental.