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yLY\d enriching of ZvV oum ejlate — for as fuch 

 it is ever eflimated — mufl of coiirfe be- 

 come the gre^t objed; oi his hfe. But 

 unibrtunately for himfelf and his family, 

 as well as for the community, he has laid 

 out his whole on the purchafe, and has not 

 a {hilling left for improvements : nay, has 

 perhaps borrowed part of the purchafe 

 money ; and has thus entailed on himfelf 

 and his family lives of poverty and hard 

 labor. Whereas, had he expended the 

 fame morjey, in Hocking and improving a 

 rented farm, he might have enriched his 

 family, and have throwr. into the markets 

 a much greater proportionate quantity of 

 produce. Belide, the poileffion depends, 

 perhaps, on his own life, and he has a wife 

 and a young family of children. He dies, 

 and of courfe leaves them deflitute : while, 

 to add to their nusfortunes,. the bailiiF of 

 the manor, in the hour of their diftrefs, 

 deprives them, perhaps, of the beft part of 

 the pittance he has left them. 



Another evil tendency of life leafes is 

 that of exciting a fpirit of fpeculation and 

 gambhng, and of alienating th^ minds of 



men 



