It could only have erected this bank into a sort of general loan office for the whole country.

它只能把这家银行建成一个类似全国信贷总局的机构。

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers.

因此，底层商人的偷偷摸摸的艺术被树立为一个伟大帝国的行为的政治格言；因为只有最底层的商人才会把主要雇用他们自己的顾客作为规则。