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u to the injury of the commonwealth, with- 

 " out any real or fubftantial benefit to the 

 " landlord, the tenant, or the labourer! If 

 " the landlord receives more money, he is 

 6 not the richer, as he has involuntarily laid 

 " the above tax upon himfelf; for, if he has 

 w a genius for calculation, he will find his 

 " prodigality is rated higher than he has 

 ' provided for in his additional revenue. Be~ 

 < fides, as we are generally difpofed to value 

 *' our importance upon the fum we annually 

 * c receive, an augmentation of income will 

 " be apt to make us play a bolder game at 

 " the hazard table ! multiply the number of 

 " our miftrefles ! increafe our plagues, in the 

 " increafe of fervants ! and furfeit ourfelves 

 upon the addition of twenty more covers 

 every day upon pur table. Or, in the o- 

 ther extreme, avarice takes from the value 

 " of his hoarded treafure, and difpatches fo- 

 " licitude and fufpicion, to invite anxiety to 

 cc be the chief gueft in their miferable party. 

 " The tenant is under the fame infatuation; 

 " his mind expands with his fortune, and 

 " he is vifited by paffions that competency 

 " was a ftranger to ; or he buries the ufelefs 

 ** favings, wrung from every enjoyment of 



" life. 



