Querist by George Berkeley
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worth while to spend a penny in order to get a groat?
91. Qu. If all the land were tilled that is fit for tillage, and all that sowed with hemp and flax that is fit for raising them, whether we should have much sheep-walk beyond what was sufficient to supply the necessities of the kingdom? 92. Qu. Whether other countries have not flourished without the woollen trade? 93. Qu. Whether it be not a sure sign or effect of a country's inhabitants? And, thriving, to see it well cultivated and full of; if so, whether a great quantity of sheep-walk be not ruinous to a country, rendering it waste and thinly inhabited? 94. Qu. Whether the employing so much of our land under sheep be not in fact an Irish blunder? 95. Qu. Whether our hankering after our woollen trade be not the true and only reason which hath created a jealousy in England towards Ireland? And whether anything can hurt us more than such jealousy? 96. Qu. Whether it be not the true interest of both nations to become one people? And whether either be sufficiently apprised of this? 97. Qu. Whether the upper part of this people are not truly English, by blood, language, religion, manners, inclination, and interest? |
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