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To speak now of the reformation and reiglement of usury; how the discommodities of it may be best avoided, and the commodities of it retained.

From Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Elliott, Calvin

Such men, more wilful than wise, beside other discommodities, take all place and occasion from all amendment.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

It appears, by the balance of commodities and discommodities of usury, two things are to be reconciled.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis

Therefore, though you begin there, to avoid carriage and like discommodities, yet build still rather upwards from the streams, than along.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis

He doth know the commodities and discommodities of all kinde of wares which you doe send vs.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard