 Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain as its own loss. Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations as among individuals, a bond of union...  Southern Quarterly Review - Page 144edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Roy Macgregor Grier, Francis Aidan Hibbert - 1908 - 450 pages
...England and France for the possession of the New World had begun. " Commerce " as Adam Smith says, " which ought naturally to be, among nations as among...the most fertile source of discord and animosity." Ever since the accession of Charles II. of Spain in 1665 a great fear had filled the minds of European... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 pages
...invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain its own loss. Commerce which ought naturally to be...kings and ministers has not during the present and the preceding centuries been more fatal to the repose of Europe than the impertinent jealousy of merchants... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 pages
...invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain its own loss. Commerce which ought naturally to be...kings and ministers has not during the present and the preceding centuries been more fatal to the repose of Europe than the impertinent jealousy of merchants... | |
 | Richard Henry Gretton - 1917 - 262 pages
...on for the rich and powerful that is principally encouraged by our mercantile system";1 and again: "The capricious ambition of Kings and ministers has not, during the present and the preceding century, been more fatal to the repose of Europe than the impertinent jealousy of merchants... | |
 | Hugh Black - 1920 - 232 pages
...here. Adam Smith, who may be said to be the father of our modern economic knowledge, wrote long ago: " Commerce, which ought naturally to be among nations...the most fertile source of discord and animosity." Some men in Germany told us frankly and brutally that this war was necessary for German industry, to... | |
 | Du Bois Henry Loux - 1920 - 296 pages
...159, 163. 6. "Nations have been taught that their interest consists in beggaring all their neighbors Commerce which ought naturally to be, among nations,...the most fertile source of discord and animosity." I. p. 497. 7. "The capricious ambition of kings and ministers has not, during the present and preceding... | |
 | 1926 - 808 pages
..."Peace is the natural effect of trade," said Montesquieu.1 Not is, but should be, said Adam Smith. "Commerce, which ought naturally to be among nations...the most fertile source of discord and animosity."" More than a century later one of the wisest of historians reaffirmed the Scotch economist's verdict.... | |
 | Allyn Abbott Young - 1927 - 320 pages
..."PEACE is the natural effect of trade," said Montesquieu. 2 Not is, but should be, said Adam Smith. "Commerce, which ought naturally to be among nations...the most fertile source of discord and animosity." 8 More than a century later one of the wisest of historians reaffirmed the Scotch economist's verdict.... | |
 | Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt - 1928 - 380 pages
...markets has had and is now very obviously having a disturbing effect on peaceful international relations. "Commerce, which ought naturally to be among nations...the most fertile source of discord and animosity" — thus Adam Smith. Why so? International trade leads to rivalries for the furtherance of selfish... | |
 | Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt - 1928 - 390 pages
...markets has had and is now very obviously having a disturbing effect on peaceful international relations. "Commerce, which ought naturally to be among nations...has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity"—thus Adam Smith. Why so? International trade leads to rivalries for the furtherance of... | |
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