merchant prince

Historical Examples of merchant prince

• Merchant-prince and agitator, horse and rider—where are you now?

  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)

  Elbert Hubbard

• The merchant-prince might as well hope to make himself a poet, as the poet a practical or practicable man.

  Literary and Social Essays

  George William Curtis

• Feudalism ignored trade, but the baron found his rival in the merchant-prince.

  Beacon Lights of History, Volume V

  John Lord

• Ever after the merchant-prince treated Thomas like a son; the kind of a boy he had always wanted and could not have.

  The Voice in the Fog

  Harold MacGrath

• Meantime, the merchant-prince flung himself into his comfortable easy-chair, a spasm of agony passing across his harsh features.

  The Bunsby papers

  John Brougham