 | James Edwin Thorold Rogers - 1888 - 584 páginas
...Britain," says Adam Smith, in the concluding sentences of his great work, "have for more than a centnrr past, amused the people with the imagination that...a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic." Smith is speaking of the American plantations, then in the first struggles of the War of Independence.... | |
 | 1891 - 790 páginas
...withdrew the attention of the inhabitants from the most profitable employment they could carry on." imagination only. It has hitherto been not an empire...empire, not a gold mine but the project of a gold mine. . . . It is surely now time that our rulers should either realise this golden dream in which they have... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 262 páginas
...in 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... | |
 | 1910 - 86 páginas
...the maintenance of the Empire. One thing he does well to insist upon that in the words of Adam Smith "it has hitherto been not an empire, but the project...not a gold mine, but the project of a gold mine," The empire has still to be made. We have talked so long and so much about it, that we have forgotten... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 páginas
...may perhaps be considered as appendages, as a sort of splendid and showy equipage of the empire . . . The rulers of Great Britain have for more than a century past amused the people that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire has hitherto existed... | |
 | Norman Angell - 1910 - 464 páginas
...equipage of the Empire. . . . The rulers of Great Britain for more than a century past amused the people that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire has hitherto existed in imagination only. It has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an... | |
 | Henry Belcher - 1911 - 424 páginas
...PLUNDERED, MALTREATED, AND STARVED. THE BRITISH, FLOUTED AS THE SCUM OP TUB EARTH. 236311 TO B. s. %. m>. 41 The rulers of Great Britain have for more than a century...empire on the west side of the Atlantic. "This empire has hitherto existed In the imagination only. It has hitherto been not an empire but the project of... | |
 | John Skirving Ewart - 1912 - 362 páginas
...not exist. It is as true for us as it was for Adam Smith more than a century ago that 'this Empire has hitherto existed in imagination only. It has hitherto...been, not an empire but the project of an empire.' It may be that we ought rather to say that if there be a British Empire then, great as it is, it relates... | |
 | Clarence Walworth Alvord - 1916 - 370 páginas
...at least one minister out of the cabinet. IV. THE EARLIER WESTERN COLONIAL POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a...the project of an empire; not a gold mine, but the prOLJect.of a'gold mine. -AoAM SMITH. The inevitable clash of the red men and the Europeans upon the... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1922 - 526 páginas
...amused their people with pictures of their great empire to the west of the Atlantic. It was, in fact, "not an empire, but the project of an empire; not a gold mine, but the project of a gold mine." The time had come to develop both the old and the new territory and make them true parts of the empire.... | |
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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... 
