 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 - Page 155edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society....their own expense, and they may safely trust private * [Defence of Utury, Letter xiii. ; t [Wealth of Nations, Book II. chap. Workt, Vol. III. p. 22.] iii.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...presumption of statesmen in attempting to remedy the evil. " It is the highest presumption and 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... | |
 | Charles Tennant - Taxation - 1857 - 510 pages
...by sumptuary laws, or to interfere with their trade with foreign nations. Sovereigns and ministers are themselves always, and without any exception,...in the society. Let them look well after their own expenses, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance do not ruin... | |
 | Henry Nicholas Sealy - Banks and banking - 1858 - 690 pages
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 560 pages
...asserts, with a democratic insolence of style, that " 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 by sumptuary laws. They are themselves always the greatest spendthrifts... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 566 pages
...asserts, with a democratic insolence of style, that " 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 by sumptuary laws. They are themselves always the greatest spendthrifts... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 576 pages
...restrain tlicir expense either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting I the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception,...they may safely trust private people with theirs. If <theif~own extravagance docs not.-r.nin the state, that of their subjects never will.1 v — "As frugality... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 356 pages
...asserts, with a democratic insolence of style, that ' 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 by sumptuary laws. They are themselves always the greatest spendthrifts... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 406 pages
...asserts, with a democratic insolence of style, that ' 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 by sumptuary laws. They are themselves always the greatest spendthrifts... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1871 - 846 pages
...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... | |
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