I04 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



as their domains, fhe prefents Kings to Nations, âS 

 their fathers and defenders. The peo,)le were not 

 made for Kings^ but Kings for the people. 1 am 

 bound, therefore, I who am nothing, and who 

 can do nothing, to contribute my wanneil wiilies, 

 at leaft, toward their fehcity. 



Farther, I feel myfclf conflrained, in juftice to 

 the commonalty of our own Country, to declare, 

 that I know none in Europe fuperior to them in 

 point of gencrofity, though, liberty excepted, they 

 are the moll; mifcrable of all with wdiom I have 

 had an opportunuy to be acquainted. Did time 

 permit, I could produce inftances innumerable of 

 their beneficence. Our wits frequently trace ca- 

 ricatures of cur fifli-women, and of our pcafantry, 

 becaufe their only objett is to amufe the rich ; but 

 they might receive fublime lelfons of virtue, did 

 they know how to ftudy the virtues of the com- 

 mon people; f )r my own part, I have, ofcener 

 than once, found ingots of gold on a dunghill. 



I have remarked, for ex.imple, that many of our 

 inferior (hop- keepers fell their wares at a lower 

 price to the poor man than to the rich ; and w^hen 

 I afked the reafon, the reply was, " Sir, every body 

 *' muft hve." I have likewife obferved, that a 

 great many of the lower order never haggle, when 

 jhey arc buying from poor people like themfelves: 



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