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zV/ Britabi as among the Romans^ — 7io great Villages or Towns can 

 771 ake amends for the defolation of the Country by great Farms.—" 

 The confequence of f mall Farms among the Romans^ as to their Po- 

 pulation and the Recruiting of their Armies, — After the manners of 

 Rome ivcre corrupted by Afiatic ivealth, it was the Greek Philofo' 

 phy that preferved any virtue among them. — That Fhilofophy is 

 wanting amotig us ; and the quefion isy Whether it can be fupplied 

 by other t hi figs which we have? — But it is certain that our Health 

 cannot be preferved without thofe Arts by which the Antient Na-' 

 tions preferved their Health. — Our hours of Eatings Drinking^ 

 xind Sleeping, ought to be reformed, and pra&ifed as they were 

 among the Romans. — The reformation of our manner of livings 

 of the utmof importance for preferving the Health, the Morals, and 

 the Numbers, of tht People. — This reformation may be brought a- 

 bout by the People of rank fetting an example, and making it the 

 Fafjion, — Fafoion prevails among the vulgar as well as among the 

 better fort. — Bathing, FriElion, and Anointing, might in that way 

 be brought into Fafhion among the lower fort of People, and alfo 

 wearing fewer Clothes, and not fwaddling and wrapping up their 

 Children. — Of the Diet of the lozverfort of People, and particular- 

 ly of their Drinking Spirits, — That ought to be abolifoed altogether, 

 or at leaf very much refrained. — Of the e-vtrtriria in Sparta, by 

 which the Diet of the People was regulated. — Something of that 

 kind praBifcd aboard our Ships of War. — The eJfcSl of it re- 

 markably feen in Captain Cook^s Voyages, where, if the Men had 

 been allowed to live as they would have chofen to do, they never 

 would have brought home the Ship. — If fuch regulation of Diet 

 was made general in Britain, what a fiving there would be of 

 Men f — Thfe regulations the more neceffary, that the People are 

 employed in Arts the mrf defru5live of Men; — and 7iot only they, 

 but their Children, — This makes the cojfumption of Children won- 

 derful, 



THUS, 



