 | 1906 - 810 páginas
...with smiles to call again. COWPER, The Task: Winter Walk at \Toon, lines 279—282 Shopkeepers. — To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.3 ADAM SMITH, Wealth of Nations, IV, vii, 3 Short. — This is the short and the long of... | |
 | Walford Davis Green - 1906 - 492 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edward Latham - 1906 - 338 páginas
...(ed. 1888, vol. 2, pp. 12t-2); Also "To found a ' great empire for the sole purpose ' of raising upa people of customers ' may at first sight appear a project ' fit only for a nation of shopheeper!. ' It is, however, a project altogether 'unfit for a nation oj shopheepers ; ' but extremely... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 páginas
...off into reminiscences of the ' Wealth of Nations,' and informed the long-suffering envoys that ' we found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers.' The chiefs would find that trade would make them peaceable and happy and prosperous. Prosperity and... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1906 - 406 páginas
...after the passing of the Regulating Act, that empire was coming, adding the shrewd comment : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of commerce may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers " ; thus anticipating... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1906 - 410 páginas
...shrewd comment : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of commerce may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers " ; thus anticipating the sarcasm of Napoleon. When the words were written Warren Hastings had become... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1907 - 296 páginas
...for much of its raw 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... | |
 | Arnold Toynbee - 1908 - 328 páginas
...allowed to export to England, or even from one colony to another. Adam Smith might well say, that ' to found a great empire, for the sole purpose of raising...first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.'1 Nothing contributed more than this commercial system to the Declaration of Independence,... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 páginas
...purposes. CHAPTER XIV THE IMPERIALISM OF ADAM SMITH § 1. The "Shopkeeper" Idea of Empire Criticised. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...statesmen, and such statesmen only, are capable of fancying they will find some advantage in employing the blood and treasure of their fellow -citizens to found... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 páginas
...purposes. CHAPTER XIV THE IMPERIALISM OF ADAM SMITH § 1. The "Shopkeeper" Idea of Empire Criticised. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...statesmen, and such statesmen only, are capable of fancying they will find some advantage in employing the blood and treasure of their fellow -citizens to found... | |
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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. 
