MONTHLY 
MAGAZINE. 
No. 367.] 
MAY 1, 1822. 
[4 of Vol. 53. 
COWPER’S HOUSE AT WESTON. 
Tue name and character of Cowper are so endeared to every lover of genius and 
the muses, that we shall be excused in adding his residence to our series, although it 
has not the recommendation of great antiquity. In this rustic building he translated 
his Homer, and wrote many original pieces, which will be admired as long as sterling 
sentiments and fine compositions are preferred to the frippery of the Lake-School, and 
the wire-drawn quartoes of such rymesters as Southey. Here Cowper passed his time 
from 1786 till 1795, with hisamiable friends Mrs. Unwin and Lady Hesketh, and perhaps 
there never existed any premises more truly consecrated by virtue and genius, and 
more distinguished by their fruits in prose and verse. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
AXIOMS illustrative of the MUTUAL OBLI- 
GATIONS of the TWO CLASSES of 
SOCIETY, the RICH and the POOR; 
with PLANS of an EQUITABLE and 
BENEFICIAL SYSTEM of POOR-LAWS. 
HE natural, legal, and social 
rights of all men are or ought to 
be alike. All have a right to subsis- 
tence, provided they apply the labour, 
without which, even the fruits of the 
earth are not to be obtained. 
It seems allowable, within certain 
bounds, which are to be determined by 
the natural wants of others, for pro- 
vident men to hoard the superfluous 
produce of their industry. 
MoxTHLy Mac, No. 367. 
This is the only legitimate founda- 
tion of what is called Wealth. 
But the invention of that portable and 
imperishable representative of produce, 
money; and the multiplied artifices of 
provident hoarders, have accelerated 
the means of accumulation ; which, as- 
sisted by the laws of inheritance and 
primogeniture, and the influence of 
wealth itself, have enabled the rich to 
overlook the legitimate foundations of 
wealth, and to make laws for its se- 
curity altogether incompatible with the 
comforts and subsistence of others. 
Hence it was declared, on the highest 
moral authority recognized by man, 
that it is more easy for a camel to 
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