 | 1820 - 632 ページ
...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... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 ページ
...that of the former, and a good deal higher than that of the latter. Light come light go, says thit> proverb; and the ordinary tone of expense seems everywhere...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for aj}^? tion whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1843 - 510 ページ
...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...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and... | |
 | 1888 - 668 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1888 - 564 ページ
...again, Adam Smith, in his ' Wealth of Nations' (1775, and in octavo edition, 1802, 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... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1851 - 912 ページ
...trade with our colonies : — " To found a great empire for the sole puq>ose of raising up a pe"p' ' of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation ' : shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of slu'jkeepers ; but extremely... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1851 - 920 ページ
...thus describes the origin of this spirit of monopoly with regard to trade with our colonies : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a pe< of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a natie shopkeepers. It is, however,... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 506 ページ
...the justice of prohibition of commerce among the colonists,! * Edinburgh Review, October, 1849. j " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopf McCoLLOCn: Principles, p. 259. as he would now be to discover the propriety, or the advantage... | |
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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. 
