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. Principles of Social Science - Stran 454avtor: Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 511 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 strani
...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...however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 538 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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...however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for aj}^? tion whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such... | |
| George Richardson Porter - 1843 - 500 strani
...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...however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen,... | |
| 1888 - 668 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
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