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 traders. Every point concerning rank, 

 fituation in life, politenefs, and gentility, 

 remain totally unimpeached by fuch a 

 practice. 



But agriculture is not only congenial in 

 thefe refpeds with the ideas of the world ; 

 ihe has, in herfelf, charms to difplay, fuf- 

 ficient to captivate any mind not infenfible 

 to the diftindlions of phyfical as well as 

 moral beauty. The employment is rather 

 an amufement than a bufmefs. It is the 

 amufement of men of the firft quality ; and 

 tends nobly to the enlarging and adorning 

 the human mind, at the fame time that it 

 promotes, in an excellent degree, the pub- 

 lick good. A circumftance, which, how- 

 ever it may be laughed at by thofe falfe 

 wits who ridicule the amor patrice^ yet will 

 ever be efteemed in no flight manner by 

 men of found parts. 



With refpe£l to the coincidence of bufmefs 

 with plealure, what profefTion can be compa- 

 red to that of agriculture, in which a gentle- 

 man is forwarding the oeconomical part of 

 his attention, by walking, riding, fhooting, 

 lilhing, &:c. &c. ? or by any rural diverfion 

 that requires him juft to ftiew himfelf once 



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