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It is a modern custom, and wholly unknown to our ancestors, who yet understood trade, in proportion to the trade they carried on, as well as we do, to have tradesmen lay out two-thirds of their fortune in fitting up their shops.
By fitting up, I do not mean furnishing their shops with wares and goods to sell-for in that they came up to us in eve