| 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...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers." 1 Nothing contributed more than this commercial system to the Declaration of... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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,...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project . . . extremely fit for a nation whose government... | |
| 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...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. Jt is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but... | |
| 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...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 1t is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 1891 - 1316 páginas
...are thus erected into political maxiuis for the conduct of a great einpire3. Und: To found a grcat empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people...may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. Jt is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but... | |
| Henry George Keene - 1893 - 504 páginas
...dominion in Asia. Adam Smith, the great British publicist of the day, drily remarked upon this : " To found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising...people of customers may at first sight appear a project only worthy a nation of shopkeepers." But it was that practical spirit that first gave them the political... | |
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