OCTOBER, 



priety. In eqnipnge, he goes no further than a 

 one-horse chaise for his wife. 



Such ?> system as i here sketched, plainly affords 

 all the necessaries, and all the comforts, which the 

 rnnk, education, and ideas of the persons possess- 

 ing them have annexed to their expectancy of life: 

 such a probability of certainty and duration as is 

 essential to enjoyment, and at the same time, per- 

 haps, of all the pursuits of industry, the most 

 exempt from unforeseen misfortunes. That the 

 tenour of the pursuit and employment is agreeable 

 to the great mass of mankind, appears clearly, from 

 every rank and class, from a grocer to a duke, 

 making it their amusement. A rich shop-keeper 

 will retire, for pleasure, from his counter to a farm : 

 no rich farmer ever went, for amusement, from his 

 fields to a shop. 



The particular observations I have made, justify 

 this general idea. I have remarked in great num- 

 bers of farmers' families, such a due measure be- 

 tween the intent and the execution; such a har- 

 mony between the ideas and the style of living ; so 

 little pretension, and so much enjoyment ; such a 

 steady preference of comfort to appearance ; such a 

 proportion, in regard to the mode of living, be- 

 tween desire and possession, that it is difficult to 

 enter their houses without seeing many marks of 

 happiness, and but few seeds of moral misery : but 

 roll an inquisitive eye through the houses of their 

 betters, and see the fearful \space between the ob- 

 jects desired and those possessed ; the anxiety far; 



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