A disposition of mind addicted to pleasure, riot, and superfluities. Luxury implies a giving one’s self up to pleasure; volupiuousness, and indulgence in the same to excess. Luxury may be farther considered as consisting in <\/p>\n
1.Vain and useless expenses.<\/p>\n
2.In a parade beyond what people can afford.<\/p>\n
3.In affecting to be above our own rank.<\/p>\n
4.In living in a splendour that does not agree with the public good. In order to avoid it, we should consider that it is ridiculous, troublesome, sinful, and ruinous. <\/p>\n
Robinson’s Claude, vol. 1: p. 332; Ferguson on Society, part. 6: sec. 2.<\/p>\n
a disposition of mind addicted to pleasure, riot, and superfluities. Luxury implies a giving one’s self up to pleasure; voluptuousness, an indulgence in the same to excess. Luxury may be further considered as consisting in,<\/p>\n
1. Vain and useless expenses;<\/p>\n
2. In a parade beyond what people can afford;<\/p>\n
3. In affecting to be above our own rank;<\/p>\n
4. In living in a splendor that does not agree with the public good. In order to avoid it, we should consider that i is ridiculous, troublesome, sinful, and ruinous. See Robinson’s Claude, 1:382; Ferguson, On Society, part 6, section 2; Buck, Theological Dictionary, s.v.<\/p>\n
LUXURY A disposition of mind addicted to pleasure, riot, and superfluities. Luxury implies a giving one’s self up to pleasure; volupiuousness, and indulgence in the same to excess. Luxury may be farther considered as consisting in 1.Vain and useless expenses. 2.In a parade beyond what people can afford. 3.In affecting to be above our own … Continue reading “Luxury”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}