 | Nassau William Senior - 1928 - 444 ページ
...them from either selling or purchasing in any market but her own. To found a great empire (he says) for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers,...project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Such statesmen, and such... | |
 | 1928 - 330 ページ
...not allowed to export to England, or even from one colony to another. Adam Smith might well say, that 'to found a great empire, for the sole purpose of...first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.'1 Nothing contributed more than this commercial system to the Declaration of Independence,... | |
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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. 
