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terruptedly, indeed, but in proportion to the peace 

 and tranquility of refpedive Hates and times. 

 Rome, once the miftrefs of the world, did not 

 fhine more in the arts of government and civil 

 polity, than in the cultivation of her lands; and 

 we find the fame patriotic ftatcfmen, who ren- 

 dered themfelves immortal by their unremitting 

 efforts to fupport and maintain liberty, were not 

 lefs eminent for their patriotic ardour to promote 

 and encourage the beneficial culture of its foil. 



Inteftine commotions and civil broils arc ever 

 unfriendly to fcience and the arts, but to none more 

 fo than to agriculture j for when the occupier's 

 tenure is rendered precarious by civil difcord, he 

 has little inclination and lefs encouragement to at- 

 tempt improvement; and ftill lefs to plough and 

 fovv, it being uncertain who may reap, indeed 

 whether there will be any thing to reap ; it having 

 too commonly happened, that whole countries fiave 

 been ravaged and become defolate by the defperate 

 frenzy of hoftile and bloody contenders, who too 

 frequently are deaf and blind to the remonftrances 

 of humanity. 



It is certainly clear, from the average prices of 

 corn and provifions of all kinds for twenty years 

 pafl, that there is not too much land in cultivation. 



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