 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 pages
...because we are surer of the odiousness of the one, than of the errour of the other. JOHNSON. " Sir, I agree with him ; for the infidel would be guilty of...that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of building in London. Does it not produce real advantage in the conveniency and elegance of accommodation,... | |
 | Donald Winch - 1996 - 452 pages
...and he clearly enjoyed attacking the facile moralism of much contemporary opinion on these subjects: Now the truth is, that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of building in London. Does it not produce real advantage in the conveniency and elegance of accommodation,... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 pages
...Johnson was not impressed by the argument that writers have been attacking luxury since time immemorial. "Many things which are false are transmitted from...luxury. Now the truth is, that luxury produces much good."86 Johnson, like Hume, argued that without luxury the poor would not be able to improve their... | |
 | Joan Robinson - 162 pages
...it immediately in charily than in spending it in luxury; though there may be pride in that too.2 and Many things which are false are transmitted from book...book, and gain credit in the world. One of these is die cry against the evil of luxury. Now the truth is, that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury... | |
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Many things which are false are transmitted from book to book, and gain credit in the world. One of these is the cry against the evil of luxury. Now the truth, is that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of buildings in London. 
