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bility is entirely wanting ; and that if the English 

 labourer has indeed, since the Kestoration, as Pro- 

 fessor Rogers asserts, become " brutish, reckless, and 

 stupid," an assertion, however, which I venture to 

 controvert the cause must be sought elsewhere 

 than in the invention of strict settlements of land, 

 or of trustees to preserve contingent remainders. 



