| 1820 - 632 páginas
...manufactures which they will create in return. Mr. Malthus speaks indeed of the impolicy of ' founding a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers ;' but neither the means nor the end to which his remarks apply are the same as those now under consideration... | |
| Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 páginas
...latter. Light come light go, says thit> proverb; and the ordinary tone of expense seems everywhere to be regulated, not so much according to the real...for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for aj}^? tion whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such statesmen only,... | |
| George Richardson Porter - 1843 - 510 páginas
...describes the origin of this spirit of monopoly with regard to the trade with our colonies : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...statesmen, and such statesmen only, are capable of fancying that that they will find some advantage in employing the blood and treasure of their fellow-citizens... | |
| 1888 - 668 páginas
...again, Adam Smith, in his ' Wealth of Nations' (1775, and in octavo edition, 1602, ii. 439), said, " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers." In neither of these cases, however, was the term "shopkeeper" applied contemptuously. This was reserved... | |
| 1888 - 564 páginas
...again, Adam Smith, in his ' Wealth of Nations' (1775, and in octavo edition, 1802, ii. 439), said, " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers." In neither of these cases, however, was the term " shopkeeper " applied contemptuously. This was reserved... | |
| George Richardson Porter - 1851 - 912 páginas
...trade with our colonies : — " To found a great empire for the sole puq>ose of raising up a pe"p' ' of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation ' : shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of slu'jkeepers ; but extremely... | |
| George Richardson Porter - 1851 - 920 páginas
...thus describes the origin of this spirit of monopoly with regard to trade with our colonies : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a pe< of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a natie shopkeepers. It is, however,... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 506 páginas
...the justice of prohibition of commerce among the colonists,! * Edinburgh Review, October, 1849. j " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopf McCoLLOCn: Principles, p. 259. as he would now be to discover the propriety, or the advantage... | |
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