103 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS, Book IIL 



CHAP. 1V« 



App^' cation to Money ^ a relief to a per/on who cannot enjoy a learned 

 Ic'ifure. —Ibe lei fur e of the lower orders of Men fhoidd he fpent 

 In exe'-dfes^ not in Drunkennefs and Debauchery^ as is mofl fre- 

 qjiently the cafe. — Ihe manner of life of the Greeks and Ramans^ 

 compared with ours in Britain. — In the Country ^ the Romans were 

 Farmers .^ and pajfcd their Holidays in Military and Athletic Exer^ 

 cifes: — In Towns ^ they had their Palcejlras^ their Campus Martins,, 

 ^c. — The Spartans cidtivated their lands by. Slaves ^ and Exercif 

 ed ihemfelves only in Ralccjlras. — This a mofl violent Exercife. — 

 The Athenians., befdes their Martial Exercifes., employed their Lei- 

 fur e in the mof elegant manner: — ift, In their Theatre., where the. 

 Exhibitions co7iffed of the three Finefl of the Fine Arts, Poetry^, 

 MufiCy and Dancing;— ^di.^ In the enjoyment of the other Fine Arts.^ 

 fuch as Statuary^ Painftng, and Architecture;-, — And^2>^\y^ In Phi^ 

 lofophy, the highef enjoyment this Earth affords*. 



BUT fuppoffe that a man has not had the advantage of fuch an 

 education, or has not profited fo much by it (which I am 

 afraid often happens) as to be able to employ his leilure in- antient 

 learning, What muft he do? And here money, which does fomuch 

 rnifchief, may again be of fome ufe. For, though he be a man of 

 fortune, and, as it often happens, follows no bufmefs or profeflionj 

 fo that his whole life is leifure, inftead of cafmg himfelf of fo great 

 a load, as his time muft be upon him, in vitious pleafures or frivolous 

 amufcments, which always fatiate fooner or latter, he iliould apply 



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