Jn Inquiry into the Principles of Taxation. [3 1] 



It is a violation (obferves the fame honeft financier, 

 in another part of his work, with which I fliall 

 now conclude) — It is a violation of the moft 

 facred of all depofits, to employ the facrifices of 

 a whole nation in inconfiderate prodigalities, ufelefs 

 expences, and undertakings foreign to the good 

 of the ftate. 



N. B. The enlargemejit of this ejay^ has occa- 

 fioned Jupernumerary pageSy it'hich the printer has 

 difiinguijhed by crotchets. An Jppendixy containing 

 notes and illujirations, is injerted at the end of the. 

 volume. 



Of POPULAR Illusions, and particularly of medi- 

 cal Demonology. By John Ferriar, M. D. 



The earth has bubbles, as the water has. 

 And thefe are of them. 



Shakespeare. 



READ MAV \t, 1786. 



THERE are two clafles of readers, who will 

 probably expeft little entertainment from the 

 fubjeft of this effay ; thofe who are not acquainted 

 with it as a branch of literature, will think it an idle 



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