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 - Página 155editado por - 1818Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1900 - 706 páginas
...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... | |
| Joseph Hiam Levy - 1903 - 136 páginas
...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... | |
| Immanuel Kant - 1907 - 434 páginas
...@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... | |
| 1911 - 1142 páginas
...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... | |
| Adam Smith - 1922 - 522 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Sowell - 1994 - 174 páginas
...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... | |
| Adam Smith - 1987 - 500 páginas
...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... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 872 páginas
...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... | |
| Karl Marx - 1986 - 354 páginas
...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... | |
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