 | Adam Smith - Division of labor - 1786 - 538 pages
...fpendthrifts in the fociety. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may fafely truft private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the ftate, that of their fubjects never will. As frugality increafes, and prodigality diminifhes the public... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Interest - 1787 - 230 pages
...fpendthrifts in the fociety. ** Let them look well after their own " expence, and they may fefely trull *' private people with theirs. If their *' own extravagance does not ruin " the ftate, that of their fubjecls never 4( will." • B. II. ch. iii. vol. ii. p. 27, edit. 8v». ^784.... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Education - 1788 - 570 pages
...fpendthrifts "in the fociety. Let them look well after their own ex pence, " and they may fafely truft private people with theirs. If their " own extravagance does not ruin the ftate, that of their fub" je&s never will." The great advantage of an improved ftate of the arts arifes... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - Civilization, Greco-Roman - 1795 - 454 pages
...fpendthrifts in the fociety. Let them look well after their own expences, and they may fafely truft private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the ftatc, that of their fubjcfts never will." repotia which followed; a thoufand. There was alfo, according... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Education - 1803 - 496 pages
...fpendthrifts in the fociety. " Let them look well after their own expence, " and they may fafely truft private people " with theirs. If their own extravagance does ** not ruin the ftate, that of their fubjects *' never will." * Wealth of Nations, vol. ii. p. 27. The The great advantage... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1803 - 504 pages
...fpendthrifts in the fociety. " Let them look well after their own expence, " and they may fafely truft private people " with theirs. If their own extravagance does " not ruin the ftate, that of their fubjecls " never will." The great advantage of an improved ftate of the arts arifes... | |
 | Adam Smith - English literature - 1811 - 550 pages
...fpendthrifts in the fociety. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may fafely truft private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the ftate, that of their fubjedls never will. • . ••,.•'•. AS frugality increases, . and prodigality... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Costs (Law) - 1816 - 292 pages
...They are themselves " always, and without exception, the *' greatest spendthrifts in the society. t< Let them look well after their own " expense, and...the "state, that of their subjects never « will." B. II. ch. iii. vol. ii. p. 27. edit. 8vo. 1784. That That the employing the expedients you mention... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 594 pages
...to watch over the economy of private people. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them...ruin the state, that of their subjects never will." (Page 106. Vol. II.) And again he says, (page 243.) " the statesman who would attempt to direct private... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Economics - 1823 - 424 pages
...prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them...ruin the state, that of their subjects never will." Wealth of Nations, book ii, chap. iii. " Sumptuary laws," says M. Say, " are superfluous and unjust.... | |
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... 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... 
