 | Adam Smith - 1801 - 448 páginas
...pofleffed a great empire on the weft fide of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto exifted in imagination only. It has hitherto been, not an empire, but the projecl of an empire; not a gold mine, but the projecl of a gold mine; a projeft which has coft, which... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 páginas
...some future war, may cost Great Britain as great an expence as it ever has done in any former war. The rulers of Great Britain, have, for more than a...; not a gold mine, but the project of a gold mine ; a project which has cost, which continues to cost, and which, if pursued in the same way as it has... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 542 páginas
...poflefled a great empire on the weft fide of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto exifted in imagination only. It has hitherto been, not an...; not a gold mine, but the project of a gold mine; a pro* jecb which has coft, which continues to coft, and which, if purfued in the fame way as it has... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 páginas
...war, may cost Gre.it Britain as great an expense as it ever has done in any former war. The ruiers uf Great Britain have, for more than a century past,...imagination that they possessed a great empire on the weft tide of the Atlantic. Thic empire, iu>«*-nr, has hitherto existed in imagination on];. It has... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 páginas
...in some future war may cost Great Britain as great an expense as it ever has done in any former war. The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people wi(h the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire,... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 506 páginas
...in some future war may cost Great Britain as great an expense as it ever has done in any former war. The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a...people with the imagination that they possessed a great enrpire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1868 - 278 páginas
...in some future war may cost Great Britain as great an expense as it ever has done in any former war. The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a...; not a gold mine, but the project of a gold mine ; a project which has cost, which continues to cost, and which, if pursued in the same way as it has... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 616 páginas
...in some future war may cost Great Britain as great an expense as it ever has done in any former war. The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a...the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, l1as hitherto existed in imagination only. It has hitherto been, not an empire, but the project of... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 870 páginas
...Great Britain as great an expense as it ever has done in any former war. The rulers of (¡rent llritain have, for more than a century past, amused the people...the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, 1шя hitherto existed in imagination only. It has hitherto been, not an empire, but the project of... | |
 | Cobden Club (London, England) - 1872 - 574 páginas
...of its being artificially undervalued, when it is made the sole factor in international exchange. " The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a...been, not an empire, but the project of an empire." A century ago, Adam Smith completed his great work, in which the words quoted above form part of the... | |
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The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination "that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only. It has hitherto... 
