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large good one? A sufficient reason why I 

 should object to it. Shall we refuse the common 

 necessaries of life, bread and water, because 

 easy of access, and substitute in their room what 

 is hard to obtain ? Will that do for the great 

 national family, who are spending their strength 

 for a bare subsistence for themselves and fami- 

 lies ? They say it is easy to breed a little good 

 one ; then is it not wisdom to accept the offered 

 good? 



" Not to know a treasure's worth 

 Till time has stolen away the slighted good, 

 Is cause of half the miseries we feel, 

 And makes the world the wilderness it is." 



COWPER. 



I cannot, for one moment, suppose that the 

 great or small size of an animal has any thing to 

 do with his goodness as a stock -getter. 



" To find the medium, asks some share of wit, 

 And, therefore, is a mark fools never hit." 



Again let me beg those luminaries to come to 

 the test of reason. They say we cannot combine 

 great wool and great mutton ; if we increase one, 

 we decrease the other. Then what are they 

 doing by enlarging the frame? Are they, by those 

 means, diminishing or increasing the difficulty ? 



