| Henry George Keene - 1901 - 216 頁
...for much of its brute matter. Long ago had Adam Smith observed upon the singularity of the attempt " to found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers ; " but since his time the attempt had come into the sphere of practical politics ; the British nation... | |
| 1902 - 698 頁
...originate it. In 1775 Adam Smith had said, in a general way and with no special application to England: "To found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising...shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose §overnment is influenced by shopkeepers, uch statesmen, and such statesmen only, are capable of fancying... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 496 頁
...a shopkeeper is true also of a shopkeeping nation.' 4 A parallel argument appears in Adam Smith. ' To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, though extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.' 6 1 ' Letter to Burke,'... | |
| 1903 - 1186 頁
...translation of this oration was printed in 1778, perhaps at Berne; the place of publication is not given." To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at tirst sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. — ADAM SMITH : Wealth of Nations,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 頁
...translation of this oration was printed in 1778, perhaps at Berne; the place of publication is not given." To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at tirst sight appear a project fit only for a nation nf shopkeepers. — ADAM SMITH: Wealth oj' A'atioiu,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 頁
...translation of this oration was printed ia 1778, perhaps at licrne; the place of publication i* noi given." To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a peopl* of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. —ADAM... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 262 頁
...channels. This so-called mercantilist policy was therefore just as disastrous to commerce as to morals. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such statesmen only, are capable of fancying that they will find some... | |
| Frederic Harrison - 1905 - 262 頁
...until fourteen years later that Adam Smith dispelled this dismal illusion, when he wrote : — "... To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such statesmen only, are capable of fancying that they will find some... | |
| 1906 - 810 頁
...with smiles to call again. COWPER, The Task: Winter Walk at \Toon, lines 279—282 Shopkeepers. — To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.3 ADAM SMITH, Wealth of Nations, IV, vii, 3 Short. — This is the short and the long of... | |
| Edward Latham - 1906 - 434 頁
...[under date May 31, 1817].— BE O'iMeara, Napoleon at St. Helena (ed. 1888, vol. 2, pp. 121-2); Also "To found a ' great empire for the sole purpose '...sight appear a project ' fit only for a nation of shopheepers, ' It is, however, a project altogether 'unfit for a nation oj shopheepers ; ' but extremely... | |
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