A PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON

BUSINESS.

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

. Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

A

PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON

BUSINESS:

OR HOW TO

GET, SAVE, SPEND, GIVE, LEND, AND BEQUEATH

MONEY:

WITH AN

INQUIRY INTO THE CHANCES OF SUCCESS AND CAUSES
OF FAILURE IN BUSINESS.

BY EDWIN T. FREEDLEY.

ALSO,

PRIZE ESSAYS, STATISTICS, MISCELLANIES.

AND

NUMEROUS PRIVATE LETTERS FROM SUCCESSFUL
AND DISTINGUISHED BUSINESS MEN.

Twenty-Second Chousand.

PHILADELPHIA:

LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO & CO.

1 8 5 3.