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Increase Of Buildings No Proof Of The Riches Of A Kingdom.
they work them up , that they may bend the easier . We are ( as Othello says ) steeped in poverty to the ' very lips to make us more pliable . And I indeed believe , that our sturdiness , as Sir Robert stilecUt , is pretty well gone off : partly pleasure , chiefly distress has unhinged us : we are no longer the people we were ; and a new dance or a new fashionmakes us forget the gloom and distress of yesterday .
, Then never tell me that we are rich , because new streets are building . You might as well urge the number of carriages about the streets , as proofs of p lenty and abundance . But I see farther ; and I know that the most nauseous medicines are always the most o-ilded ; and that very tawdry clothes and showy banquets often are
cloaks to extreme poverty . Look round the country of Eng land ; see the numberless seats and capital manor houses daily advertised to be let or sold : Enquire as you ride , whose house that is up the avenue , and where the master lives ; and the answer is always , In London . In London we will suppose him to live then . He pays hard money there even for the roots and rnish of his tablewhich in the country
ga , would have cost him nothing ; and are , in the interim , consumed by the more worthy tenants in the parish . " In the country a gentleman is visited-not only by the necessitous , but by the wealthy , because he is the principal person in a certain district ; which always draws respect . In London , your jiext door neihbour knows just enough of you to criticise on you
g , and smile at your conduct , and , by the stratagem of a message with the words rout or assembly joined to it , people are heterogeneously packed together , with no other view , than to ' shuffle a pack of cards ; and gain by tricks , ¦ what they are above gaining by-industry and fair dealing .
. This is the life of a modern country gentleman , removed to town . with the incumbrance of a family . By this means your new , streets me constantly filled—by the necessitous , and not the wealthy .
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE
SIR , IT is not a little surprising that age , which so greatly terrifies us , should nevertheless be so much coveted by all the world . W e are all ashamed to be old , and yet we all desire to live long enough to be as venerable as Methuselah . On the other hand , in our juvenile years , we think it a dishonour to be young : a girl wants to be a womanand a boy a man long before the' time
allot-, ted by nature . Hence it is , that miss , scarce in her teens , affects the dress and appearance of her mamma ; and the smock-faced youth , without the down of sixteen , makes use of his penknife for a razor .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Increase Of Buildings No Proof Of The Riches Of A Kingdom.
they work them up , that they may bend the easier . We are ( as Othello says ) steeped in poverty to the ' very lips to make us more pliable . And I indeed believe , that our sturdiness , as Sir Robert stilecUt , is pretty well gone off : partly pleasure , chiefly distress has unhinged us : we are no longer the people we were ; and a new dance or a new fashionmakes us forget the gloom and distress of yesterday .
, Then never tell me that we are rich , because new streets are building . You might as well urge the number of carriages about the streets , as proofs of p lenty and abundance . But I see farther ; and I know that the most nauseous medicines are always the most o-ilded ; and that very tawdry clothes and showy banquets often are
cloaks to extreme poverty . Look round the country of Eng land ; see the numberless seats and capital manor houses daily advertised to be let or sold : Enquire as you ride , whose house that is up the avenue , and where the master lives ; and the answer is always , In London . In London we will suppose him to live then . He pays hard money there even for the roots and rnish of his tablewhich in the country
ga , would have cost him nothing ; and are , in the interim , consumed by the more worthy tenants in the parish . " In the country a gentleman is visited-not only by the necessitous , but by the wealthy , because he is the principal person in a certain district ; which always draws respect . In London , your jiext door neihbour knows just enough of you to criticise on you
g , and smile at your conduct , and , by the stratagem of a message with the words rout or assembly joined to it , people are heterogeneously packed together , with no other view , than to ' shuffle a pack of cards ; and gain by tricks , ¦ what they are above gaining by-industry and fair dealing .
. This is the life of a modern country gentleman , removed to town . with the incumbrance of a family . By this means your new , streets me constantly filled—by the necessitous , and not the wealthy .
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE
SIR , IT is not a little surprising that age , which so greatly terrifies us , should nevertheless be so much coveted by all the world . W e are all ashamed to be old , and yet we all desire to live long enough to be as venerable as Methuselah . On the other hand , in our juvenile years , we think it a dishonour to be young : a girl wants to be a womanand a boy a man long before the' time
allot-, ted by nature . Hence it is , that miss , scarce in her teens , affects the dress and appearance of her mamma ; and the smock-faced youth , without the down of sixteen , makes use of his penknife for a razor .