...by modern political science. Adam Smith declares, " 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...

...maintained by the produce of other men's labour. ... 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...

...@mitb] AS in The Wealth of Nations В II chap. Ill (Ausg. Me Culloch S. 278) kurz vor dem Ende: The are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. 20932 Шегие] Vgl. 200i4ff. 21018 Spinfel] Vgl. 13825ff. 211i4 Slrouet] Vgl. „Lebensbeschreibung...

...ministers in pretending to watch over the economy of private people and to restrain their expense, being themselves always and without any exception the greatest spendthrifts In the society." Yet he does not seem to have been averse from all attempts to in flu'••••• through taxation...

...restrain their expeno-. either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception,...spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after th^ir own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance...

...interests but extravagant with its tax money: 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...

...thrift and public profusion, 'It is' (you conclude) 'the highest impertinence and presumption therefore in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign...

...exchange. No improvement can be made on Smith's understanding that "It was the highest impertinence of 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...

...the frying-pan to the agonies of the fire. 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...

...hatred of the clergy. The first passage runs: 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...