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Show [48] [G.P.] POLITICAL FRAGMENTS. 4Q ulually occupy females; as the time betw een rifing and preparing for breakfaf'r, between breakf ai‘c and I'OLtTieAL FRAGMENTS;/ilj>1bQ/étl fill/PF t0 lac written 5} Dr. Franklin, or to contain flirt/want: nearly (ll/ll'd to lair 0-wn'*. preparing for dinner, &c. &c. The amount of all thefe fragments, is, in the courfe of a year very confiderable to a fingle family; to a {lard proportionably. [§ 1. Of t/Je Employment osz'nzc, and of Indolcncc ; particularly (2: rrflbc‘é‘iing the Staten] LL that live muft be fubfiited. _ coils fomething. _ Subfifience He that is induf'trious produces, by his indufiry, fomething that is an equivalent, and pays for his fublif'tence : he is therefore no charge or burden to fociety. The indolent are an expence uncompenfated. There can be no doubt but all kinds of em~ ployment that can be followed without prejudice Highly profitable therefore it is, in this cafe alfo, to follow that divine direc tion, gatner up tlzefragmentr tnat notnzng fie ltfl. Loft 1time is loft fubfiitence ; it is therefore loft trea- ure. Hereby in feveral families, man ards of ' have been produced from the emplolylhent of tight}: fragments only, in one year, though fuch families were jufi the fame in number as when not fov employed. It was an excellent faying of a certain annr/é Emperor, I will, gquflz‘éle, [we no idlene/i in my from interruptions; work that can be taken up, and laid down, often in a day, without damage ,-. (fuch as fpinning, knitting, weaving, &C.) are highly advantageous to a community; becaufe, in them, may be collected all the produce of thofe fragments of time, that occur in family-bufinefs, between the coni'tant and neceffai'y parts of it, that the public by each individual, not being performed by the indolent, muft naturally fall to the (hate of others, who mutt thereby fufi‘er. " [The political fragments which are here prefented to the reader, were gathered up from the notes, annexed to a pamphlet called 775:: [ § 2. OfEmlargoe: upon Corn, and aftne Poor. ] Prinn‘plg: omedr, printed for Brat/Jeri" and Se-wcl, Lam/on, 1774., fecond edition.-The writer of this work {peaks of afliilance lent to him, in the following patfage in his prcfaee. ‘ Some very refpcéL ‘ able friends have indulged me with their ideas and opinions. It dammzanr ; for 9" there ée one man idle, flme otner man mu/l jifflér cold 0r bunger. We take this Emperor's meaning to be, that the labour due to, ' In inland high countries, remote from the fea, and Whofe rivers are fmall, runningfrom the coun- ‘ is with the greatefl: pleafure we in this fecond edition mofl grate- try, and not to it, as is the cafe of Switzerland; ‘ fully acknowledge the favour; and mull add, that {hould the great dlfirefs may. arife from a courfe of bad harvefts, if public granaries are not provided, and! ‘ public hold this performance in any eitimation, no fmall {hare ‘ belongs to thofe friends.' friends here alluded to. Our author is one of the refpeétable kept well Ptored. E. ] ufually Anciently too, before naviga-r H tion. |