 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 ページ
...purposes. CHAPTER XIV THE IMPERIALISM OF ADAM SMITH § 1. The "Shopkeeper" Idea of Empire Criticised. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers but extremely fit for a nation... | |
 | Keith Feiling - 1913 - 180 ページ
...attitude of men to the Empire even early in the seventeenth century . Then began that settled project, "to found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers," * which Adam Smith attacked as the project was coming to an end. First the East India Company — sole... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1906 - 406 ページ
...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... | |
 | Arthur Percival Newton - 1917 - 162 ページ
...celebrated passage in his Wealth of Nations, sets it forth as a gigantic system of national shopkeeping. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
 | Harry Gordon Selfridge - 1918 - 662 ページ
...and of disrespect. Adam Smith, the great economist, in referring to the public question, wrote : " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...a project fit only for a nation of shop-keepers." Napoleon too is frequently quoted as referring to England as " only a nation of shop-keepers," but... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 ページ
...gwrhaps at Herne ; the place of publication is not given." To found a great empire for the sole pur]K>sc of raising up a people of customers may at first sight...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. — ADAM SMITH: Wealth vf Satiunt, vol. ii. book v. chap. rii. parts. (177».) And what is true of... | |
 | Ernest Scott - 1920 - 370 ページ
...this end. The ordinary reasons in favour of Free Trade do not touch such a case. — Lord Haldane. To found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation... | |
 | Charles Ryle Fay - 1920 - 344 ページ
...see, we are a military nation". But like many a good phrase, it goes back to Adam Smith, who said: "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... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 ページ
...Claimed that THOMAS A BECKET wrote words for Shaw. See Notes and Queries. (Aug. 20, 1899) Pp. 164,231. 6 — Nwremburg. o OAK [ Quercus A song to the oak, the brave nation of shopkeepers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It... | |
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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. 
