...characteristical virtue of its inhabitants. It is the highest impertinence. and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch' over...of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves...

...public profusion, " It is " (you conclude) " the highest imper" tinence and presumption therefore " in kings and ministers to pretend to " watch over...of private " people, and to restrain their expense, " either by sumptuary laws, or by " prohibiting the importation of fo" reign luxuries. They are themselves...

...than Dr. Smith. " It is the highest impertinence and presumption," says that enlightened politician, " in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let...

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

...continually pulling down what individuals are buildingup; so that, as Dr. Smith justly observesf, " it is the highest impertinence and presumption in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the ceconomy of private people, and to restrain their expences, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting...

...and public profusion, "It is," (you conclude) " 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 arc themselves...

...repressing of waste and excess by sumptuary /au-.i.' Adam Smith is not only indignant at ' sumptuary Taws,' but asserts, with a democratic insolence of style,...their expense by sumptuary laws. They are themselves al* wavs the greatest spendthrifts in the society : let them look well after their own expense, and...

...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...of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves...

...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...

...public profusion — " It is," you conclude, " 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...