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NYEP(D.750.011
2 Apr 1750:11 (254)
From Dean Swift's Miscellanies, vol. 3. An Infallible
Scheme to pay the publick debt of Ireland in six months.
Let us consider what those vices are, which at present
prevail among us; and I believe, upon enquiry, they will be
found. . . [1 column, suggests taxing vices and luxuries.]
I know it may be here objected, that I have computed upon
too small a number, and that I might justly account rather
twenty or thirty thousand per day, in the several counties
of this Kingdom: But, tho' I own this objection to be very
strong, if we were to consider the opportunities of wakes,
patron-days, hay-making season, May-days, religious
pilgrimages to holy wells, balls, publick and private, and
many other commodious scences for that kind of
entertainment; yet I would rather chuse to err on the right
side in to small, than too great a computation. . .
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