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make a material object to increase it as the several 

 farms become vacant of which your estate consists ; 

 a prospect by no means admissible on any other 

 principle than that of your making ]8O acres yield 

 an unquestioned profit before you take any more, 

 and so proceeding with respect to every successive 

 farm. 



" And this observation, as well as all I shall 

 make, ought to rest on your having a just idea of 

 what such an income as 460). will enable a family, 

 in such times as these, to effect ; for it is less, I 

 doubt, than you conceire. You must remember 

 the many instances of such estates in my know- 

 ledge, and, I believe, in your own, which have 

 been dissipated by their owners (I might almost .suy 

 without dissipation}, by their not having a due sense 

 of those increased expences of living, not marked 

 so much by the price, per pound, of necessaries, 33 

 by the more luxurious and elegant ideas which have 

 ..pervaded every class of the people ; and which ap- 

 pear in building, fitting up, and furnishing housc^ ; 

 in gardens, table, equipage, dress, pleasures, edu- 

 cation, &c. Nothing but a rigid prudence can 

 keep a man in the class he was born in, with am 

 estate that ranks with yours. If you think it pos- 

 sible for you to associate with men of JOOl. SOOl. 

 or lOOOl. a year, upon any thing like equal terms, 

 you must either be ruined, or pay too dearly, 

 through a month's uncomfortable restrictions, for 

 the pleasure (mixed with much trouble) of a day. 

 For want of these reflections, hundreds have been 



L 1 4 ruined, 



