. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. llbe rich. Secondly, the firft familiesin the country have been eitherraifed or fupported by the plofigh ;and whilft nothing is more reputa-ble to a perfon or nation than hofpi-tality, yet this becomes deftruc-tion of families when they are boun-tiful alone without indullry and fru-gality ; but when they are as in-duftrious in good hufbandry to pro-vide arid meafure out with th?e onehand, as the other is to extend andlavifh without meafure, thofe menonly are the good houfekeepersthofe men only can be the conftau;friends to the poor and the
. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. llbe rich. Secondly, the firft familiesin the country have been eitherraifed or fupported by the plofigh ;and whilft nothing is more reputa-ble to a perfon or nation than hofpi-tality, yet this becomes deftruc-tion of families when they are boun-tiful alone without indullry and fru-gality ; but when they are as in-duftrious in good hufbandry to pro-vide arid meafure out with th?e onehand, as the other is to extend andlavifh without meafure, thofe menonly are the good houfekeepersthofe men only can be the conftau;friends to the poor and their neigh-bours ; they alone are wife. Thegood bee gathers and gives honeyswithout defacing the fair flower ofhis cflate, which he always leaves tohis pofccrity well increaied. Thirdly,-there are many graziers and corn-dealers of great ellates, acquired bythe ir own good hufbandry. Fourthly,fuppofe it were not fo, yet the faultis not in the profeffion, but in thefailure of pradlice and perfons : forthe more common, mean, and vul- f.^uttrto. 7?la a. TheJfeiiJfSrlal Leariii^^s offlieSiales of Mafsacliusetts^NAorlv The Armorial gar fclafs of hufljandmen have onlyfome general, rude, imperfcdl, andirrational habits, from which theycan be no more moved, than a dullfturdy afs can be gotten to mendhis pace,; and they are generally foaverfe to all nevs^ practices, that it isfound impoflible to infufe better^ra6lices into their heads by anybther means than by fome one ma-nifeft example at a time, repeatedand reiterated under their ftubbonrnnefs of their natures(continues Mr. Hartlib) is difco-tered in this, that when the moft ra-tional ways to make their llarvedland bear good crops are difcoveredand held out to therii, they utterly- reje6l that notice, deride the pro-pofers and inventors, and endeavourio retard or defeat the praftice, lefttheir ignorance or envy fliould bethereby expofed. There are peoplebelow the medium of underftandingand goodnefs, who have no otherway of feem
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