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. Adam Smith - Página 175de Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 240 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1888 - 564 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1851 - 916 páginas
...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,... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 506 páginas
...the justice of prohibition of commerce among the colonists,! * Edinburgh Review, October, 1849. j " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopf McCoLLOCn: Principles, p. 259. as he would now be to discover the propriety, or the advantage... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 508 páginas
...Prineiplet, p. 259. J " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up n people of customers mnv at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation...however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopas he would now be to discover the propriety, or the advantage to England herself, of a " warfare"... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 510 páginas
...commerce among the colonists, J » Edinburgh Review, October, 1849. f MoCuLLOCH : Principlti, p. 269. T " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up -. people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 500 páginas
..."misery'' described by Mr. Malthus had its existence in virtue of any of the laws of God keepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers." — Wealth of Nations, book 4, chap. vii. Of the measures that had been adopted with a view to carry... | |
| Richard Whately - 1861 - 372 páginas
...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.... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 páginas
...I, 1776. Philadelphia, printed, London, reprinted for E. Johnson, Aro. 4 Ludgate Hill. MDCCLXXVI.1 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. Ch. vii. Part 3. 1775. And what is true of a shopkeeper... | |
| Adam Smith - 1869 - 870 páginas
...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...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, hut extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such... | |
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