 | Walford Davis Green - 1901 - 488 σελίδες
...than any foreign Power, but astutely adds that this did not arise altogether from disinterestedness. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...customers, may at first sight appear a project fit for a nation of shopkeepers." The traders of England wished that " the cultivators of America might... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1901 - 216 σελίδες
...for much of its brute matter. Long ago had Adam Smith observed upon the singularity of the attempt " to found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers ; " but since his time the attempt had come into the sphere of practical politics ; the British nation... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1902 - 94 σελίδες
...his interest, while the public yawns over the dry details of national finance. As Adam Smith says: " To found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such... | |
 | 1902 - 698 σελίδες
...originate it. In 1775 Adam Smith had said, in a general way and with no special application to England: "To found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose §overnment is influenced by shopkeepers, uch statesmen, and such... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 σελίδες
...translation of this oration was printed in 1778, perhaps at Berne; the place of publication is not given." To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at tirst sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. — ADAM SMITH : Wealth of Nations,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 σελίδες
...translation of this oration was printed in 1778, perhaps at Berne; the place of publication is not given." To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at tirst sight appear a project fit only for a nation nf shopkeepers. — ADAM SMITH: Wealth oj' A'atioiu,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 σελίδες
...translation of this oration was printed ia 1778, perhaps at licrne; the place of publication i* noi given." To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a peopl* of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. —ADAM... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 262 σελίδες
...channels. This so-called mercantilist policy was therefore just as disastrous to commerce as to morals. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1905 - 262 σελίδες
...until fourteen years later that Adam Smith dispelled this dismal illusion, when he wrote : — "... To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and... | |
 | Edward Latham - 1906 - 434 σελίδες
...[under date May 31, 1817].— BE O'iMeara, Napoleon at St. Helena (ed. 1888, vol. 2, pp. 121-2); Also "To found a ' great empire for the sole purpose '...sight appear a project ' fit only for a nation of shopheepers, ' It is, however, a project altogether 'unfit for a nation oj shopheepers ; ' but extremely... | |
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 
