STRAIN THE FIRST. THE ARGUMENT. Its ufe, abufe, end. The The How the King attended. A profped of happiness. Industry. A forpriling inftance of it in old Rome. The mifchief of oth. What happi nefs is. Sloth its greatest enemy. Trade na tural to Britain: Trade invoked. Defcribed. What the greatest human excellence. praife of wealth. variety of nature. The final mural cause of it. The benefit of man's neceffities. Britain's naval itores. She makes all Nature serviceable to her ends. Of reafon. Its excellence. How we hould form our cftimate of things. Reafon's difficult task. Why the first glory hers. Her effects in old Britain. The kings be cloath'd in purple shake Their aweful brows: "O foul mistake! O fatal pride! (they cry) this, this is the, "Who faid-with my own art and arm, An inference from this hiftory. Advice to Britain. More proper to her than other Nations. How far the ftroke of tyranny reaches. What fupports our endeavours, The unconfider'd bene fits of liberty. Britain's obligation to purfue trade. Why above half the globe is fea. Britain's grandeur from her fituation. The winds, the feas, the constellations, defcribed. Sir Ifaac Newton's praife. Britain compared with other States. The Leviathan defcribed. Britain's fite, and ancient title to the feas. Who rivals her. Of Venice. Holland. Some defpite Trade as mean. Cenfured for it. Trade's gloryThe late Czar. Solomon, A furprizing inftance of magnificence. The merchant's dig nity. Compared with men of letters. HENCE learn, as hearts are foul or pure, Our fortunes wither or endure : Nations may thrive, or perifb by the wave. What forms from Jose's unwilling frown, In the world's wealth I wrap me warm"- A people's crimes folicit down! And swell'd at heart, vain Empress of the Seal! | Ocean's the womb of riches, and the grave. This This Truth, O Britain! ponder well; And charge the Gods with favours misbestorv'd. 111: This council fuits Britannia's Ifle, To vaffals prifon'd in the Continent, Who ftarve, at bome, on meagre toil, And fuck to death their mother foil, Twere ufelefs caution, and a truth mis-spent. |