unto them,
as may
breed a
subject to
live in
convenient
plenty and
no servile
condition;
and to
keep the
plough in
the hands
of the
owners,
and not
mere
hirelings.
And thus
indeed you
shall
attain to
Virgil’s
character,
which he
gives to
ancient
Italy
—Terra
potens
armis
atque
ubere
gleb?.
Neither is
that state
(which,
for any
thing I
know, is
almost
peculiar
to
England,
and hardly
to be
found any
where
else,
except it