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beggars and paupers, and the constant dread of 

 becoming a pauper or beggar yourself? If 

 your commands are not obeyed with such 

 alacrity as in England, you have, at any rate, 

 nobody to command you. You are not ordered 

 to " stand and deliver' twenty or thirty times in 

 the year by the insolent agent of Boroughmon- 

 gers.- No one comes to forbid you to open or 

 shut up a window. No insolent set of Com 

 missioners send their order for you to dance 

 attendance on them, to shew cause why they 

 should not double-tax you ; and, when you have 

 shown cause, even on your oath, make you pay 

 the tax, laugh in your face, and leave you an 

 appeal from themselves to another set, deriving 

 their authority from the same source, and hav 

 ing a similar interest in oppressing you, and 

 thus laying your property prostrate beneath the 

 hoof of an insolent and remorseless tyranny. 

 Free, wholly free, from this tantalizing, this 

 grinding, this odious curse, what need you 

 care about the petty plagues of Domestic Ser 

 vants? 



341. However, as there are some men and 

 some women, who can never be at heart's ease, 

 unless they have the power of domineering over 

 somebody or other, and who will rather be 

 slaves themselves than hot have it in their power 

 to treat others as slaves, it becomes a man of 



