 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
 | Klaus Günter Grunert, John Thøgersen - 2005 - 392 páginas
...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 - 2006 - 442 páginas
...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 - 2005 - 232 páginas
...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 - 2006 - 348 páginas
...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 - 2007 - 340 páginas
...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 - 2007 - 280 páginas
...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 - 2007 - 168 páginas
...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 - 2007 - 1476 páginas
...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 - 1826 - 634 páginas
...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 - 1809 - 516 páginas
...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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