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. Notes and Queries - Page 1061888Full view - About this book
| Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 328 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1913 - 180 pages
...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 - India - 1906 - 406 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1917 - 162 pages
...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 - Commerce - 1918 - 662 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 1920 - 370 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1920 - 344 pages
...for, you 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... | |
| Cecil Delisle Burns - Great Britain - 1921 - 326 pages
...government as chiefly a means for increasing markets abroad or using colonial markets. As Adam Smith said, " To found a great empire for the sole purpose...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... | |
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