 | Richard Halkett - 1887 - 588 páginas
...the ' Wealth of Nations,' 177ft, Vol, ii., Book iv, Ch. vii. Part 8, occurs the following passage— "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at lii>t sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers." The quotation from Adams's Oration... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 486 páginas
...Burn the enclosed PS' MSRSE Adam Smith condemns such a system as this in the following words : — ' 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 fellowLXXVI.] THE AMERICAN... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 páginas
...same year that American independence was declared, Smith said : "To found a great empire [America] for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers,...a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project . . . extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. . . . England purchased... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1890 - 504 páginas
..."the universally received opinion among all men of enlightened political views, that the interests 1 "To found a great empire, for the sole purpose of...nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers." Wealth of Nations, vol. ii. p. 439. Arthur Young says practically the same thing: "The entire administration... | |
 | Wilhelm Hasbach - 1890 - 196 páginas
...underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire3. Und: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. Jt is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
 | Wilhelm Hasbach - 1890 - 196 páginas
...underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire 3 . Und: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 1t is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
 | Georg Simmel - 1891 - 1314 páginas
...underling tradesmen are tluis erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire3. Und: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people ot customers, may at tirst sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 1t is, however,... | |
 | 1891 - 1316 páginas
...are thus erected into political maxiuis for the conduct of a great einpire3. Und: To found a grcat empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. Jt is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1893 - 504 páginas
...dominion in Asia. Adam Smith, the great British publicist of the day, drily remarked upon this : " To found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising...people of customers may at first sight appear a project only worthy a nation of shopkeepers." But it was that practical spirit that first gave them the political... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1893 - 500 páginas
...after the passing of the Regulating Act, that Empire was coming ; adding the shrewd comment : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of commerce may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers " ; thus anticipating... | |
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 
