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family, he is leifs able to fupply them. Yet not- 

 withftanding thefe fad:s are continually pafling be- 

 fore our eyes, we find that mankind have not of 

 themfelves fufficient refolution to be oeconomical^ 

 or to lay up- any thing in health and profperity, 

 againft the attacks of poverty and difeafc. 



It has been my fortune to be placed in a fituation, 

 which obliges me often to vifit the dreary manfions 

 of the .wretched, when the jaundiced eye of difeafe 

 gives additional horror to the meagre countenance 

 of poverty. With a mixture of forrow, indignation, 

 and pity, have I often- feena young man, capable 

 of earning fourteen Ihillings a week, with a wife in 

 perfed health, and only one childy reduced by a fingle 

 week'sillnefs to the neceffity of feeking relief from 

 the parilh ! whilft the furniture of his houfe, and 

 the coverings of what was called his bed, were 

 fuiEcient, from their filth and naftincfs alone, to 

 occafion difeafe in the mofl robuft conftitution. 

 Could this extreme poverty proceed from any other 

 caufe than the moll fhameful mifmanagement •?* 



* As a proof that it could not, I have now within my eye a poor 

 honeft felldw, who earns no more than fix fhillings per week, has 

 five children under nine years of age> and his wife big with the fixth, 

 who held out, notwithftanding, under aftate of total ina6livity, for 

 full four weeks, without applying to a parilh, and without running 

 inrdebt. 



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