Nation of Shopkeepers


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Nation of Shopkeepers

name disdainfully given to Britain by Napoleon Bonaparte. [Fr. Hist.: Wheeler, 256]
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The remembrance of such a fact surely becomes a nation of shopkeepers. It was a blessing for a commerce-loving country to be overrun by such an army of customers: and to have such creditable warriors to feed.
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Despite their commercial tricks, when that 'nation of shopkeepers' finally quit the subcontinent, their campaign to make the people dependent on tea had achieved only partial success.
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NAPOLEON said that the British were a nation of shopkeepers; he could also add gardeners and dog lovers to that.
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Forget about a nation of shopkeepers, we are a nation of private railways, and at this time of year they all come puffing out of hibernation at the head of a variety of Christmas specials.
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We're famously known as a nation of shopkeepers. But retailers are more than just shops.
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In Napoleon's day we were known as a nation of shopkeepers which I think we are becoming again instead of being proud to be known in later years as 'The Workshop of the World' and as regards Birmingham, 'The City of a Thousand Trades'.
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We may no longer be a nation of shopkeepers, but huge numbers of our region's workforce are employed in retail outlets.
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We need to grow industry, else we really will be a nation of shopkeepers, reliant on imports.
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Which historical figure called the English "A nation of shopkeepers"?
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I would refer Chris to the Napoleonic Wars when Napoleon described us as a "nation of shopkeepers" and instructed his allies and the countries he occupied not to deal with Britain.
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RITAIN has turned from a nation of shopkeepers into a nation of drop seekers.
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