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portance of this contrast, cannot long have any 

 doubt upon the subject. 



In all this I wish to be general : there are cer- 

 tainly wise gentlemen, and there are foolish far- 

 mers : I see sometimes, for instance, a piano-forte 

 in a farmer's parlour, which I always wish to be 

 burnt: a livery-servant is sometimes found, and a 

 post-chaise to carry their daughters to assemblies ; 

 these ladies are sometimes educated at expensive 

 boarding-schools, and the sons often at the univer- 

 sities, to be made parsons; but all these things 

 imply a departure from that line which separates 

 these different orders of beings: let these things, 

 and all the folly, foppery, expence, and anxiety 

 that belong to them, remain amongst gentlemen ; 

 a wise farmer will not envy them. Education of, 

 children is an object of too much consequence to 

 be hastily dispatched, and I mean to give, at some 

 other time, my thoughts more at large on that sub- 

 ject. 



It will be obvious to every reader, that ther6 are 

 many professions in which industry is exerted, that 

 partake of the farmer's advantages: such are to be 

 found in manufactures and commerce : but not to 

 d'.vell upon the points in which these are manifestly 

 inferior, I shall only observe, that the largeness of 

 their capital necessarily arranges them in a class by 

 themselves. The sum which will place a farmer at 

 his ease, is lost in trade or manufacture. 



Suppose the land 50O acres, 40001. or 50001. 



will stock it, and set the occupier a-going, so that 



M in 2 his 



