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poor and miserable as they may be, their prin- 

 ple is precisely the same as that of Borough- 

 mongers and Priests : namely, to live without 

 labour on the earnings of others. The desire to 

 live thus is almost universal ; but with sluggards, 

 thieves, Boroughmongers, and Priests, it is a 

 principle of action. Ask a Priest why he is a 

 Priest. He will say (for he has vowed it on 

 the Altar !) that he believes himself called by 

 the Holy Ghost to take on him the care of 

 souls. But, put the thing close to him ; push 

 him hard ; and you will find it was the benefice, 

 the money and the tithes, that called him. Ask 

 him what he wanted them for. That he might 

 live, and live, too, ivithout work. Oh ! this 

 work ! It is an old saying, that, if the Devil 

 find a fellow idle, he is sure to set him to 

 work ; a saying the truth of which the Priests 

 seem to have done their utmost to establish. 



398. Of the goers back was a Mr. ON SLOW 

 WAKEFORD, who was a coach-maker, some 

 years, in Philadelphia, and who, having, from 

 nothing hardly to begin with, made a comfort 

 able fortune, went back about the time that I 

 returned home. I met him, by accident, at 

 Goodwood, in Sussex, in 1814. We talked 

 about America. Said he, " I have often thought 

 " of the foolish way, in which my good friend, 

 " NORTH, and I used to talk about the happy 

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