...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....

...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...

...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,...

...them from either selling or purchasing in any market but her own. To found a great empire (he says) for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers,...shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such statesmen only, Sec. 1] COLONIAL TRADE AND SLAVERY 199 are capable of fancying that they will find some advantage in...

...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,...

...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...

...Napoleon, who actually originated the shopkeepers remark. In Wealth of Nations (1776), 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." But during a meeting of the French convention on June 11, 1794, Napoleon...

...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...

...R. SEELEY (1834-95), English classicist, historian. The Expansion of England, Lecture I 11883). 17 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. ADAM SMITH (1 72Î-90), Scottish economist. The Wealth of Nations,...

...they do not want to see is unlimited." OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, lyricist (New York Times, March 7, 1991) "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...nation whose Government is influenced by shopkeepers." ADAM SMITH (The Wealth of Nations, 1776); "A nation of shopkeepers" was subsequently used derisively...