

,>s, &c. the lofs fuftained to the public 

 may be perhaps feveral thoufand pounds each 

 clay. Now, although nature furnifhes us 

 abundantly with materials, yet our own in- 

 duftry and labour is required to fit them for 

 our ufe ; and whoever labours not for his 

 Own bread, muft eat the bread of others, and 

 thereby unjuftly invades his neighbour's pro- 

 perty. 



In fine, idlenefs prevents great men from 

 adverting to their own intereft, trufting the 

 management of their concerns to others ; 

 whereby their annual expences are greatly 

 hicrcafed, their eftates neglected, and little 

 i iprovements made ; which if they per- 

 fonally attended to, might in a iliort 

 time, be fo improved, as to produce above 

 double the prefent crops. Whereas many 

 eftates, inftead of being improved, are ne- 

 gledied, and fuffered to go to ruin ; every 

 year turning worfe and worib. 



The lower clafs of people never fail to imi- 

 tate the example of their fuperiors. By con- 

 tracting a habit of idlenefs, they not only 

 fpend treble the fum which they would do, 

 (perhaps as much in or^e day as they can earn 

 in ten), when employed in ibme ufeful bufi- 

 O nefs, 



