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Nation of Shopkeepers name disdainfully given to Britain by Napoleon Bonaparte. [Fr. Hist.: Wheeler, 256] See : Britain How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A city
filled with Abu Simsims i s a nation of shopkeepers, busy pursuing their
ends and perceiving their neighbors not as the embodiment of enmity but
with quite a different attitude: Call it bourgeois empathy.
Continental diplomats (and English aristocrats like Bryce) disdained
economics; and if Britain was a nation of shopkeepers, America was a
whole continent of them. |
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