...public profusion, " It is " (you conclude) " the highest imper" tinence 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 fo"...

...is the highest impertinence and presumption," says Adam Smith, the decided advocate of parsimony, " 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...

...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...

...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 expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign...

...asserts, with a democratic insolence of style, that '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 by sumptuary laws. They are themselves always the greatest spendthrifts...

...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...

...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 their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign...

...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 expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign...

...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 expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign...

...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...