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Show E 59 J [ 58 l " with the Spoils of wealthy Nations is a com. t4 pendious Way of getting Wealth -, furely " we cannot be deceived in lo plain a Cafe: bor THE Soldier ofFortune, beingmade thus rich, lits down to enjoy the Fruits of his Conquef't, and to gratify his Wilhes after f0 much Fatigue " we fee that what has been gathering together " and accumulating for Years, and perhaps for and Toil: But alas! he prefently finds, that Ages, thus becomes our own at once ;. and more might be acquired by a happy Victory within the Compals of a Day, perhaps of an Hour, than we could otherwile promife to ourfelves by the tedious Purfuits of Indul'try through the whole Courfe of a long laborious for Glory have difi‘ufed themfelves among his " " " " " " " Life." . Now, in order to treat with this People in their 0an Way, I would not awake them out of their prefent golden Dream -, 1 would there- fore fuppofe, that they might fucceed to their in Proportion as this heroical Spirit and Thirfi Countrymen, in the fame Proportion the Spirit of Indufi'ry hath funk and died away; every Neceflary, and every Comfort and Elegance of Life are grown dearer than before, becaufe there are fewer Hands, and lefs Inclination to prom duce them ; at the fame Time his own Delires, and artificial Wants, infiead of being lefiened, are greatly multiplied; for of what Ute are Riches to him unlefs enjoyed? Thus therefore it comes to pafs, that his Heaps of Treafure are like the Snow in Summer, continually melting Heart's Defire, though there is a Chance at leafl: of being dilappointed, and of meeting with away -, {0 that the Land of Heroes foon becomes the Country of Beggars. His Riches, it is true, Captivity infiead of Conqueft: I will wave like- rufhed in upon him like a Flood; but, as he wife all Confiderations drawn from the intoxi- cating Nature of Riches, when {0 rapidly got, and improperly acquired : I will alfo grant, that great Stores of Gold and Silver, of Jewels, had no Means of retaining them, every Article he wanted or wilhed for, drained away his Stores like the Holes in a Sieve, 'till the Home -, and that the Treafures of the Univerfc may, if you pleafe, be made to circulate within Bottom became quite dry: In fhort, in this Si~ tuation the Sums, which are daily and hourly illuing out, are not to be replated but by anew the Limits of our own little Country: War, and a new Series of Victories; and thefe Diamonds, and precious Stones, may be brought And if ' this were not enough, I would {till grant more, did I really know what could be wilhed for or expected more, rrHE new Wars and new Victories do all enhance the former Evils; f0 that the relative Poverty of the Inhabitants of this war-like Country becomes H 2 fo |