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. Notes and Queries - Page 1061888Full view - About this book
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...to a single order of men, is in many different ways hurtful to the general interest of the country. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 538 pages
...to a single order of men, is in many different ways hurtful to the general interest of the country. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for... | |
| 1820 - 632 pages
...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 pages
...to a single order of men is in many different ways hurtful to the general interest of the country. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for aj}^?... | |
| George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1843 - 500 pages
...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...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| Electronic journals - 1888 - 668 pages
...shop-keeping nation "; and again, Adam Smith, in his ' Wealth of Nations' (1775, and in octavo edition, 1602, ii. 439), said, " To found a great empire for the...scoundrels that ever existed. In the reply above noticed (б'" S. vi. 420) it ig stated that Barere, in speaking on June 18, 1704, about the naval action which... | |
| George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1851 - 912 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1851 - 916 pages
...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,... | |
| |