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.... Questions in Political Economy, Politics, Morals, Metaphysics, Polite ... - Página 109por Samuel Bailey - 1823 - 400 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 páginas
...impertinence and presumption therefore in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy i>f private people, and to restrain their expense, either...prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They ure themselves always and without exception the greatest spendthrifts in the society: let them look... | |
| 1835 - 858 páginas
...as by any other class of legislators. " 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 Iheir expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1836 - 434 páginas
...the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch ever the economy of private people, and to restrain their...luxuries. They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and... | |
| Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 páginas
...characteristic virtue of its inhabitants. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the...with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin tbe state, that of the subject never wilL As frugality increases, and prodigality diminishes, the public... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1839 - 314 páginas
...public profusion — " It is," you conclude, " the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the...luxuries. They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1839 - 318 páginas
...impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economg of private people, and to restrain their expense,...luxuries. They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - 642 páginas
...public profusion — " It is," you conclude, "the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the...luxuries. They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and... | |
| Karl Knies - 1853 - 386 páginas
...presumption in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over tlie oeconomy of private people etc. — they are themselves always . and without any exception the greatest spendthrifts in the society etc. II, 3: — — There is no art, which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 páginas
...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...luxuries. They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 páginas
...It is the highest presumption and impertinence in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over ike economy of private people, and to restrain their expense,...luxuries. They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and... | |
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