 It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They...  The Pamphleteer - 155 페이지 편집 - 1818전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 페이지
...been desisted from. Listen to Adam Smith : * It is the highest impertinence and presumption therefore in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1874 - 904 페이지
...Metrop. Vol. X. p. 110. Adam Smith said of such laws, "It is the highest impertinence and presumption in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 페이지
...restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception,...safely trust private people with theirs. If their own regal extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will. As frugality increases,... | |
 | Wilhelm Roscher - 1878 - 486 페이지
...are not favorably inclined towards sumptuary laws. " It is the highest impertinence and presumption in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | 1882 - 488 페이지
...are not favorably inclined towards sumptuary laws. " It is the highest impertinence and presumption in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | 1882 - 826 페이지
...of his whims was to describe 1 * It is the highest impertinence and presumption,* says Adam Smith, ' in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | 1882 - 1146 페이지
...his whims was to describe 1 • It is the highest impertinence and presumption,' says Adam Smith, ' in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of piivate people, and to restrain their expense either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 페이지
...sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves at* ways, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts...Let them look well after their own expense, and they m*y safely trust private people with theirs. H their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1894 - 526 페이지
...characteristical virtue of its inhabitants. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | Sir George Nicholls - 1898 - 488 페이지
...but at the same time with much force, remarked by Adam Smith, that " it is the highest impertinence in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
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