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3 powers and

y alt 4 tas=

oni vaft variety of defcriptions of men. They ought not perhaps to ee CON On oye:: ner 5 be tolerated; but if at all tolerated, it fhould be under fuch reftric« ADEN tn rea.

Fill tions, as to mitigate, in fome meafure, the evils that neceffarily rachcable b a ae; 6 3* } originate from them. A wife legiflature looks forward to things

ced into fo.‘ fee:: ae of this nature; and, in time, guards again{t the evils of violent

8, its effect‘ 3

‘ of convulfions of any fort, by making cuftoms which have been fanétioned by law, gradually give way to the changes in men’s

. Calculations

, minds and cirtumftances that are imperceptibly taking place in all fin ie Bthattwo{tages of civil fociety.

n the agric: sere. He agricul(£> page 137.) Farmers who pay tithe in kind, for the moft

he kind here part, confider thofe who draw the tithe in the fame light nearly omar Let that brewers or diftillers view the officers of excife; and the The Yeoman ingenuity of thefe two defcriptions of perfons is almoft continually purchale of af on the ftretch to difcover fome way in which they can be cheated te at prefent, it is eafy to perceive, that a perfon whofe wits have been thus ex- for flocking' ercifed from*his infancy to difcover modes of eyafion, will at laft at a fair rent,- acquire a confiderable degree of dexterity in it, fo as often to foil alculation,= an honeft man, who happens to acquire aright to the tithe. This s themelres is an evil whofe confequences are of wider extent than I choofe

Kord to live; to develope at prefent.

f apricaltura(4; page 184.) T cannot produce a more ftriking proof of this,

and let this than occurs in refpe& to the irrigation of land; a praétice that has

TT it

Let him then been found in the higheft degree beneficial in Wiltfhire, and feve-

e! ral other counties in Britain, where it has been prattifed as an im-

= c saeweodoh 2 ee t ch ridiculous provement of the very firft confequence for ages. Yet, through

npott ard the greater parts of the kingdom, it was never heard of till of Jate; ’..-.

gat ree and in many very extenfive diftri@s, the farnlers in general know alls at Mt-.... nothing about it, even‘at this prefent time. Though there is not

of the moft aye eee + and thofe a doubt, that were this pra@tice introduced as generally as it might an: ee:: fe be in every diftrit, the total produce of the ifland might be aug- to hum a‘le mented by that means alone to the value of many hundred thoufand sncompall nr pounds per annum. y palling 194 ’ 3 ae oa— OI a AOE CLIO—"—— adi tet nie—————