The merchants and artificers, much less ridiculous, acted merely from a view to their own interest, and in pursuit of their own pedlar principle of turning a penny wherever a penny was to be got.

商人和工匠，更不用说荒谬了，他们的行为仅仅是为了他们自己的利益，并遵循他们自己的小贩原则，即在能得到一分钱的地方转一分钱。