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to 7noney, and employ his time in counting it, and devifing ways 

 how he fhall fave or gain it. And if he keeps a great table, and 

 fine equipage, and confequently a great number of fervants, and fets 

 down every farthing he gets in and lays out, at the fame time tak- 

 ing care that he is not cheated by his fervants, and that money may- 

 be faved as much as poflible, he will find that he has very little tim^ 

 to fpare. 



As to the lower fort of people, their occupation is making money, 

 and it is that which makes them run about in fuch hafte as we fee 

 them do in great towns. What leifure they have is generally very 

 ill employed. They have one feventh day wholly of reft ; and, 

 though 1 approve very much of keeping the Sabbath by prayers and 

 fermons, yet, as the people are incapable of employing the reft of 

 the day in private devotion, I think they fhould employ fomc part 

 of it, as the Roman farmers did their whole holidays, in athletic or 

 military exercifes, and as the people of England formerly did after 

 divine fervice, inftead of paffing it in drunkennefs or idlenefs as the 

 people of England now do; and they commonly add to it a confi- 

 derable part of Saturday. And this makes their lives fo far un- 

 happy; but we may think what their mifery would be, if they had 

 not the occupation of acquiring money, and their whole life w^re 

 leifure. 



Among us there is one clafs of men, who not having the occupa- 

 tion of making money, and not having had the education, which, 

 as Ariftotle has obferved, is required to enable a man to pafs his 

 leifure well, and having at the fame time a great deal of leifure, 

 employ it very ill, and are perhaps the moft profligate fet of men in 

 Britain. The men I mean are the fervants of the great and rich, 

 who being very numerous, and employed in miniftering to the va- 

 nity and luxury of their mafters in their tables and equipages, have 



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