 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....  Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer - Seite 296von William Lucas Sargant - 1870Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Andres Marroquin - 2002 - 165 Seiten
...hoped, will do so in all future times. ... 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 luxuries. They are... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - 2009 - 352 Seiten
...society to have a good share in the food, clothes, and housing they themselves produce (WN 96), and that it is "the highest impertinence and presumption,...pretend to watch over the economy of private people." He adds, about these kings and ministers: "They are themselves, always, and without any exception,... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - 2005 - 212 Seiten
...produce (WN 96). And to those who claimed to be protecting the poor from their own prodigality, he says it is "the highest impertinence and presumption, ......pretend to watch over the economy of private people." He adds, about these kings and ministers, "They are themselves, always, and without any exception,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 Seiten
...characteristic 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 luxuries. They are themselves... | |
 | Monty Armstrong, David Daniel, Princeton Review (Firm), Abby Kanarek, Alexandra Freer - 2004 - 376 Seiten
...decentralization of manufacturing plants 45. "It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the...of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries." Source: Adam Smith,... | |
 | Matt Andersson - 2005 - 404 Seiten
...moving, subsidize it. — Ronald Reagan It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the...of private people, and to restrain their expense. . . They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.... | |
 | Klaus Günter Grunert, John Thøgersen - 2005 - 392 Seiten
...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...of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves... | |
 | Richard L. Tames - 2005 - 232 Seiten
...characterised virtue of its inhabitants. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the...of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves... | |
 | Henry C. Clark - 2007 - 416 Seiten
...situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him," he writes in one place. "It is the highest impertinence and presumption ......kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the oeconomy of private people," he asserts in another. "[T]he law ought always to trust people with the... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 2006 - 348 Seiten
...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... | |
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