u as applied not only to thofe that do any o- 

 " ther bufinefs, but alfo thofe that buy land, 

 * c that they may not buy more than they are 

 fully able for. To this is applicable the 

 famous fentence of our poet, You may 

 admire a large farm, but cultivate a fmall 

 one ; which antient precept the moft learn- 

 ed man, in my opinion, expreifes in num- 

 bers. This too is agreeable to an acknow- 

 ledged maxim of the Carthaginians, a very 

 acute nation, That the land ought to be 

 " weaker than the hufbandman; for when 

 " they ftruggle, mould the farm prevail, the 

 cc matter muft be ruined. And indeed, there 

 c is no doubt, but a fmall field well culti- 

 " vated produces more than a large field ill 

 " cultivated." 



The great extent of wafte ground in every 

 county of Britain, is a proof, that it is ne- 

 ceflary the legiflature mould encourage and 

 enforce improvements in agriculture. 



A part of the amazing fums raifed in Eng- 

 land every year for the poors-rates, might be 

 appropriated for erecfling villages and gar- 

 dens, for lodging and maintaining the poor ; 

 by which they might be maintained at half 

 the expence they are at prefent, and probably 



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