...strong, sensitive, and aspiring, the dissolution of their union awakens no surprise. If it was possible " to found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers," it was not for this alone that it could be maintained. Thus the old colonial system collapsed, and...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...