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Indirect
Satisfying
the whole produce of the Land-tax at 4d a pound.
Yet in Scotland, it is said, the condition of the
poor is better upon the whole than in England.
Plus valent ibi boni mores, quam hic bonæ
leges. The business is better done there by manners
only than here by laws. I should be sorry to see the English
poor-laws introduced into made general in Scotland. But being once estab-
In Scotland, Ireland and France the poor
are moderate in their wants. In Scotland Naples
climate saves the expense of firing, of lodging, & almost
of cloathing. In the East Indies cloathing is
scarcely requisite except but for decency. In Scotland
there is a turn for every point of good management except cleanliness.
In Holland for every point [of good management]
without exception. In England there are on
the one hand more craving wants, on the other
hand worse management than perhaps in any
other country under the sun on the globe.
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