...and of disrespect. Adam Smith, the great economist, in referring to the public question, wrote : " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...a project fit only for a nation of shop-keepers." Napoleon too is frequently quoted as referring to England as " only a nation of shop-keepers," but...

...gwrhaps at Herne ; the place of publication is not given." To found a great empire for the sole pur]K>sc of raising up a people of customers may at first sight...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. — ADAM SMITH: Wealth vf Satiunt, vol. ii. book v. chap. rii. parts. (177».) And what is true of...

...Claimed that THOMAS A BECKET wrote words for Shaw. See Notes and Queries. (Aug. 20, 1899) Pp. 164,231. 6 — Nwremburg. o OAK [ Quercus A song to the oak, the brave nation of shopkeepers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It...

...autonomy at the Cape, will be briefly traced in the next chapter. After all people came to understand that "to found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, might at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers." (3). 1. Cf. Lady Anne...

...Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (iv. 7), a book well known to the Emperor. He says — To found a Rreat empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. A nation of poets and thinkers. So Bulwer Lytton calls Germany in his introduction to Ernest Maltravers....

...grateful to Daniel Patrick Moynihan for reminding me of the purpose Smith had when using this expression: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...of customers, may at first sight appear a project only for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by...

...Napoleon, who actually originated the shopkeepers remark. In Wealth of Nations (1776), Smith wrote: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers." But during a meeting of the French convention on June 11, 1794, Napoleon...

...an entrenched capitalistic authority. They judged wrong and now pay the damages. Adam Smith wrote: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers." The shopkeepers of Adam Smith's time have today become the multinational...

...R. SEELEY (1834-95), English classicist, historian. The Expansion of England, Lecture I 11883). 17 To found a great empire for the .sole purpose of raising...nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. ADAM SMITH (1 72Î-90), Scottish economist. The Wealth of Nations,...

...they do not want to see is unlimited." OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, lyricist (New York Times, March 7, 1991) "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...nation whose Government is influenced by shopkeepers." ADAM SMITH (The Wealth of Nations, 1776); "A nation of shopkeepers" was subsequently used derisively...