. The deserted village . cussion would take up much room, and Ishould prove myself, at best, an indifferent politician, to tire the reader with a longpreface, when I want his unfeigned attention to a long poem. In regretting the depopulation of the country, I inveigh against the increase ofour luxuries; and here also I expect the shout of modern politicians against me. Fortwenty or thirty years past, it has been the fashion to consider luxury as one of thegreatest national advantages; and all the wisdom of antiquity in that particular aserroneous. Still, however, I must remain a professed anci
. The deserted village . cussion would take up much room, and Ishould prove myself, at best, an indifferent politician, to tire the reader with a longpreface, when I want his unfeigned attention to a long poem. In regretting the depopulation of the country, I inveigh against the increase ofour luxuries; and here also I expect the shout of modern politicians against me. Fortwenty or thirty years past, it has been the fashion to consider luxury as one of thegreatest national advantages; and all the wisdom of antiquity in that particular aserroneous. Still, however, I must remain a professed ancient on that head, and con-tinue to think those luxuries prejudicial to states by which 30 many vices are intro-duced, and so many kingdoms have been undone. Indeed so much has been pouredout of late on the other side of the question, that merely for the sake of novelty andvariety, one would sometimes wish to be in the right. I am, ^^^BB^- ffijjk -? .Daw Sb)$.° Vour sincere friend, and ardent admirer, Oliver
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