 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 496 páginas
...a shopkeeper is true also of a shopkeeping nation.' 5 A parallel argument appears in Adam Smith. ' To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...may, at first sight, appear a project fit only for a 1 ' Letter to Burke,' p. 52. 2 Burke's Works, ii. 413. * Johnson, viii. 200. ' Tucker's Works, iii.... | |
 | 1877 - 362 páginas
...August 1, 1776. Philadelphia, printed ; London, reprinted for E. Johuson, No. 4 Ludgaie Hill, 1776. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first eight appear a project fit only for a NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS. — ADAM SMITH, Wealth of Nations. Native... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 páginas
...August 1, 1776. Philadelnhia, printed; London, reprinted for E. Johnson, No. 4 Ludgale Hill, 1776. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...first sight appear a project fit only for a NATION OP SHOPKEEPERs.— ADAM SMITH, Wealth of Nations. Native Land. — Breathes there the man with soul... | |
 | 1880 - 844 páginas
...following extract from Adam Smith's great work, "The Wealth of Nations," Book IV., chapter VII., part 3: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up >. people of Customers, may at first sight appear a project fit for" a malien of ikopkceptrs. It is,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1880 - 274 páginas
...country. Some may think that to found a great empire in order to raise up a nation of customers is a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 páginas
...in a shop or by retall, in distinction from a merchant, or one who sells by wholesale; a tradesman. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...people of customers may at first sight appear a project only for a nation of ifitflteffers M Sift, I An article that has been long on hand In a shop: aa, that... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 830 páginas
...in a shop or by retail, In distinction from a merchant, or one who sells by wholesale; a tradesman. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...people of customers may at first sight appear a project only for a nation Qtshofkttperj. std. Smith. 2. An article that has been long on hand in a shop; as,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...printed in 1778, perhaps at Berne ; the place of publication is not given. — Wells's Life of Adams. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight apjiear a project fit only fur a nation of shopkeepers. — Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Vol. ii.... | |
 | Arnold Toynbee - 1884 - 304 páginas
...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 raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers." 1 Nothing contributed more than this commercial system to the Declaration of Independence, and it is... | |
 | BASIL - 1884 - 358 páginas
...belly ?—Anmer of Imemm All Zadi to Mr, Layar<Fs attempt to suggest another motivs for Ms laiows, To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.—ADAM SMITH. IT must be allowed that both Miles and Maurice were hasty in their condemnation,... | |
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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. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for... 
