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Show t 6: i [60] . ) . . . ortion to their Sue. rop 1 in ter, grea the h muc lo propofed for eefs in the very Means mif'takenly enriching them. A FEW indeed, incited by the firong lnl'tine‘t and of an avaricious Temper, may gather not fertile in its Nature -, yet, by Means of Fru~ gality and lndui‘try, and under the Influence of flgmrian Laws (which allotted from two to fix, or eight, or perhaps ten Acres of Land to each Family) they not only procured a com- l‘crape up what the many are fquandering away ; fortable Sublificnce, but alto were enabled to and fo the Impoverifhment of the Community carry on their petty Wars without Burden to the State, or Pay to the Troops -, each Hufband man may become the Enrichment of the Individual. But it is utterly impoliible, that the great Majority of any Country can grow wealthy by that or little Freeholder ferving gratis, and providing his own Cloaths and Arms during the Fnort Courfe of Life which renders them both very extravagant, and very idle. To illuflrate this Train of Reafoning, let us have recourfe to Facts: But let the Facts be fuch as my Opponents in this Argument would wilh of all others to have produced on this Occalion: And as the Example of the Roman: is Time that was neceflitry for him to be abfent eternally quoted, from the Pamphleteer in the or in other Words, to ferve gratis any longer; Garret, to the Patriot in the Senate, as extremely " The brave R0- and therefore they were under a Necefiity to accept of Pay. Moreover, as they could fel~ dom vilit their little Eltates, thele Farms were " mam ! That glorious ! That God like People! unavoidably neglected, and consequently were " The Conquerors of the World! Who made " the molt haughty Nations to fubmit! Who " put the Wealthiel't under Tribute, and brought foon difpofed of to engrofling Purchaiers : And thus it came to pafs, that the Lands about Rome, in fpite of the agrarian Laws, and of the feveral Revivals of thol‘e Laws, Jere monopolized worthy of the Imitation of Britom, let their Example decide the Difpute. " all the Riches of the Univerfe to centre in the " Imperial City of Rome 1" Now this People, at the Beginning of their from his Cottage and Family on fuch Expeditions. BUT when their Neighbours were all fubdued, and the Seat of \Nar removed to more dil'tant Countries, it became impoihble for them to draw their Stiblillence from their own Farms; State, had 21 Territory not f0 large as one of into a few Hands by Dint of their very ConquePtS and SuccelTes : And thus allo the Spirit of lntlullry began to decline, in our middling Counties, and neither healthy, Proportion as the military Genius gained nor H 3 the |