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of ever w anting, to ftop ; yet he ftill continues to accumulate. But 

 this I afcribe partly to vanity, (for all rich men are more or lefs vain 

 of their money,) but chiefly to the habit, he has got into, of devifmg 

 how to fave and gain money, and lay it out to the greateft ad- 

 vantage, and to his inability of pafTmg his time in any other way;' 

 fo that he is driven to the neceflity of continuing his application to 

 money, by his not knowing what elfe to do, which makes many 

 people do many things that they would not otherw^fe do. But ftill, 

 I think, it is true what I have obferved, that the mifer, from what- 

 ever motive he accumulates, will not do things fo bad, for the ac- 

 quifition of money, as the man who joins the two vices of luxury 

 and avarice. 



Thefe two vices were joined together in Rome, as Salluft informs- 

 U3- for, he ioijsjjabemus luxuriam et avaritiam^ : And it was in the. 

 nobles that they were joined, which produced the moft dreadful con- 

 fpiracy that ever exifted in any nation; for it was the conjpiracy of thefe 

 nobles, who, by their birth and education, ought to have been the beft 

 men in the city, againft the government and the reft of the people.. 

 The confpiracy I mean, was that of Cataline, by which, not only 

 the government was to be overturned, but the city fet on ftre, and' 

 the people of rank and wealth murdered even by their ow^n chil- 

 dren. Of this confpiracy, we have a very accurate account given 

 us by Salluft, and w^hich I think a very valuable piece of hiftory. 



As there is more wealth, I believe, in England than in any 

 other country of Europe, fo there are, there, to be {ttxv more bad 

 effeds of wealth tlian any where elfe ; for there are, in England,, 

 more crimes and vices, more difeafes and more indigence, than in 

 any other nation now exifting, or, I believe, that ever did exift. 

 x\s to crimes, they abound fo much, that our jails cannot hold our 



convidts \ 



* Bejlum Caiilincrium. 



