 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
 | Klaus Günter Grunert, John Thøgersen - Business & Economics - 2005 - 392 pages
...revived with even more gusto by Milton Friedman. It is the 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... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - Business & Economics - 2006 - 442 pages
...impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the oeconomy of private people They are themselves always, and...in the society. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin... | |
 | Richard L. Tames - Business & Economics - 2005 - 232 pages
...characterised 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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Philosophy - 2006 - 348 pages
...overcomes the blunders of doctors. It is, as he infers, ' the highest impertinence and presumption for kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people' by sumptuary laws and taxes upon imports.1 To the English manufacturer or engineer government appeared... | |
 | Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - Philosophy - 2007 - 340 pages
...restrain their expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception,...in the society. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. (I45VII.iii.36) Gay, after quoting this... | |
 | Mark Skousen - Economics - 2007 - 280 pages
...money from the pockets of the people. (813) 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services - Executives - 2007 - 168 pages
...recalls a quote of Adam Smith where he said, "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. They are themselves always and without any exception the greatest spendthrifts... | |
 | Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...characteristic virtue of its inhabitants. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, ors, and sometimes against his sovereign. The security of a landed estate, the and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1826 - 634 pages
...restrain their expences, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception,...in the society. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 516 pages
...characteristicaJ 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 expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
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