 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...to a single order of men, is in many different ways hurtful to the general interest of the country. 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... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 538 pages
...to a single order of men, is in many different ways hurtful to the general interest of the country. 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... | |
 | 1820 - 632 pages
...manufactures which they will create in return. Mr. Malthus speaks indeed of the impolicy of ' founding a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers ;' but neither the means nor the end to which his remarks apply are the same as those now under consideration... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...to a single order of men is in many different ways hurtful to the general interest of the country. 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... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1843 - 500 pages
...describes the origin of this spirit of monopoly with regard to the trade with our colonies : — " 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... | |
 | 1888 - 668 pages
...again, Adam Smith, in his ' Wealth of Nations' (1775, and in octavo edition, 1602, ii. 439), said, " 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." In neither of these cases, however, was the term "shopkeeper" applied contemptuously.... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1851 - 912 pages
...trade with our colonies : — " To found a great empire for the sole puq>ose of raising up a pe"p' ' of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation ' : shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of slu'jkeepers ; but... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1851 - 920 pages
...thus describes the origin of this spirit of monopoly with regard to trade with our colonies : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a pe< of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a natie shopkeepers. It is, however,... | |
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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. 
