 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 strani
...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... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1923 - 1010 strani
...shopkeepers.' ' Sono mercanti,' as Paoli used to say." — Lord Rosebery, Napoleon : The Last Phase, p. 193. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers." — Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Vol. II., Book IV., Chap. VII., part 3, 1775. " And what is true... | |
 | A. J. Bruwer - 1923 - 212 strani
...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... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - 1925 - 748 strani
...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.... | |
 | Niels Nielsen - 1927 - 610 strani
...handelsaand. Commercialism bruges nu gærne nedsættende. Shopkeeper bruges med odiøs klang hos Adam Smith: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers; medens Burke derimod i sin Bristol- valgtale rosende henvender sig til A rich commercial city a part... | |
 | Gerhard von der Lippe Gran, Francis Bull - 1927 - 540 strani
...emerged from the Imperial 1 cfr Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations III (1775): To found a great em* pire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. slough of despond. The monopoly system was exchanged for that of reciprocity, a substitution which,... | |
 | 1928 - 330 strani
...not 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...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,... | |
 | Mancur Olson - 1982 - 292 strani
...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... | |
 | Dimitris N. Chorafas - 1992 - 306 strani
...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... | |
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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. 
