| 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...statesmen, and such statesmen only, are capable of fancy ing thatthey will find someadvantage in employing the blood and treasure of their fellow-citizens,... | |
| 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...for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for aj}^? tion whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such statesmen only,... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...to a single order of men, is in many ditlerent ways hurtful to the general interest of the country. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statcMiien, and such statesmen only, are capable of fancying that they will find some advantage in... | |
| Electronic journals - 1888 - 668 pages
...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... | |
| Electronic journals - 1888 - 564 pages
...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 - 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... | |
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