| 1884 - 712 páginas
...Layard's attempt to sngqa-t another ittotii'c jor his labours. ' To found a great empire for the solo purpose of raising up a people of customers may at...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.' — AD.VM SMITH. IT must be allowed that both Miles and Maurice were hasty in their condemnation, unheard,... | |
| Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 182 páginas
...of any hesitation about such a policy in the interests of the mercantile section of the community. "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... | |
| Arnold Toynbee - 1887 - 314 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... | |
| Richard Halkett - 1887 - 588 páginas
...the ' Wealth of Nations,' 177ft, Vol, ii., Book iv, Ch. vii. Part 8, occurs the following passage— "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at lii>t sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers." The quotation from Adams's Oration... | |
| David Hume - 1888 - 486 páginas
...Burn the enclosed PS' MSRSE Adam Smith condemns such a system as this in the following words : — ' 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 páginas
...same year that American independence was declared, Smith said : "To found a great empire [America] for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers,...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project . . . extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.... | |
| Sir Spencer Walpole - 1890 - 504 páginas
..."the universally received opinion among all men of enlightened political views, that the interests 1 "To found a great empire, for the sole purpose of...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... | |
| Wilhelm Hasbach - 1890 - 196 páginas
...underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire 3 . Und: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 1t is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| Wilhelm Hasbach - 1890 - 196 páginas
...underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire3. Und: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. Jt is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation... | |
| Georg Simmel - 1891 - 1314 páginas
...underling tradesmen are tluis erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire3. Und: To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people ot customers, may at tirst sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 1t is, however,... | |
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