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Excerpt from Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, Originally Presented to the Right Hon. William Pitt: In the Month of November, 1795
He not only found in agriculture the moft agreeable relaxation from his more fericus'cares, but he regarded the cultivation of the earth, and'the improvement of all which it produces, as a fort of moral and religious duty. Towards the clofe of his life, when he had loft his fon, in whom all his profpe�ts had long centered, after lamenting, in an elegant allulion to Virgil, that the trees, which he had been nurfing for many years, would now afford no {hade to his pofterity, he was heard to correct himfelf, by adding, Yet be it foz I ought not therefore to befiow lefs attention Upon them - they grow.
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