...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,...

...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...

...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 fancying that they will find some advantage in employing the blood and treasure of their fellow-citizens, to...

...manufactures which they will create in return. Mr. Maltlius 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:...

...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...

...manufactures which they will create in return. Mr. Malthas 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...

...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,...

...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...

...describes the origin of this spirit of monopoly with regard to the trade with our colonies : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...statesmen, and such statesmen only, are capable of fancying that that they will find some advantage in employing the blood and treasure of their fellow-citizens...

...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...