Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… living ‘in Luxury and Ease’, 5 but as they become too virtuous, the community collapses. Indulging in self-interest, pride, vanity, and luxury, he suggests, provides employment and aids trade. Thus, luxury, the ‘private vice’ is also a … and ‘to that purpose had consulted a great milliner at Westminster’. 12 The letter-writer finds the women so full of ‘pride and vanity’, so keen on spending lavishly, that he quits his original plan of proposing to one of them. Especially …
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