The Gleaner a Series of Periodical Essays volume 1
The Gleaner a Series of Periodical Essays volume 1
Nathan Drake
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I say, let the Tithe-bill pass, and let these methods be regularly and constantly followed for one twenty or thirty years, and I make not the least doubt (provided no extraordinary thing happen) but the clergy will be as poor, as miserable, as contemptible, and as incapable of doing any good in society, and of inter- rupting the repose of our country squires, as their greatest eijemies would wish them. *' And, lastly, let me farther add, that when the Tithe-bill is passed, and another Bill, ful...l as reasonable, relating to the game (and brought upon the stage at the same time with the other), by which the whole monopoly of wood- cocks was to be ascertained to their worships and their heirs male ; and no persons (under a severe penalty), besides the country squires and their eldest sons, impowered to lay springes for them for the future : I say, let this Bill pass, as well as the other Bill, and let not only most of the parsons be debarred from that heinous and unpardonable crime of killing a hare, but also the greatest part of the attorneys, the counsellors, the physicians, the surgeons, tlie wealthy tradesmen, the mercliants, and his majesty's officers in the army ; and I dare pro- mise my countrymen glorious times, and that hounds and horses, huntsmen and grooms.
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