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Additional Tax for the Current Service . 
Whatever taxes are required, they mud be paid : and if fuch 
inducements to labor are offered, as will keep people above 
beggary, is there any thing in this light to fear from war ? If 
war is not attended with fuch violence and oppreflion on the 
fubjed:, as prevents his induftry, or cuts him off from the 
means of reaping the fruits of it, he will work ; and as foon 
as he receives the price of his labor, he will pay his tax, and 
be ready to receive the fame money again. New hufbandmen, 
and new manufacturers, will fpring up from neceflity. In ur- 
gent cafes which create a great call for men, in fome countries 
we even fee women perform the drudgery of the field. Pray 
god this may be our cafe, rather than fubrnit to an inglorious 
peace ! It is far better to cook your own meat, as I have known 
fome very great ladies do occaiionally to divert themfelves, 
and fend your cook- maid to till the earth, than let matter, mi- 
llrefs, and fervant, receive the law from any power on earth. 
Would you imagine that four millions of laboring people, 
men, women and children, at only a halfpenny a day for their 
additional labor, working three hundred days in a year, that 
it amounts to two millions and a half? Perhaps we have not fo 
great a number of people capable of labor ; but many thou- 
sands of them can earn a penny, nay six-pence or a shilling 
a day extraordinary, if they please, and if we find them 
work. The great complaint of many matters is, that labor is fo 
dear, a man may earn in three days, what will Support him 
the whole week ; the confequence of which is, that the re- 
mainder of his time is fpent in idleness or debauchery. I 
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