The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: Miscellaneous Pieces
The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: Miscellaneous Pieces
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy
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I am far from imagining that they are natural^ mere ravenous or blood-thirsty than those on whom they fidl with so much violence and fury ; but they are hungry^ and hungCT must be satisfied ; and these savages, when thek bellies are full, will fawn on those whom they now bite. The result of all these considerations amounts cmly to this, that the number of writers must at last be lessened, but by what method this great design can be accomplished, is not easily discovered. It was lately proposed,... that every man who kept a dog should pay a certain tax, which, as the contriver of ways and means very judici- easly. observed, would either destroy the dogs, or bring in money. P^haps, it might be proper to lay some such tax upon authors, only the payment must be lessened in pro- portion as the animal, upon which U is raised, is less ne- cessary ; for many a man that would pay for his dog, wilt Digitized by Google EMPLOYMENT OP AUTHORS. 861 dismiss his dedicator. Perhaps, if every one who ^n- ployed or harboured an author, was assessed a groat a year, it would suffioiently lessen the nuisance without de- stroying the species.
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