 | Henry George Keene - 1906 - 410 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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,... | |
 | Keith Feiling - 1913 - 180 strani
...attitude of men to the Empire even early in the seventeenth century . Then began that settled project, "to found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers," * which Adam Smith attacked as the project was coming to an end. First the East India Company — sole... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1906 - 406 strani
...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... | |
 | Arthur Percival Newton - 1917 - 162 strani
...celebrated passage in his Wealth of Nations, sets it forth as a gigantic system of national shopkeeping. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. . . . England purchased for some of her subjects, who found themselves uneasy at home, a great estate... | |
 | Harry Gordon Selfridge - 1918 - 662 strani
...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... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 strani
...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... | |
 | Charles Ryle Fay - 1920 - 344 strani
...see, we are a military nation". But like many a good phrase, it goes back to Adam Smith, who said: "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... | |
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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. 
