And gave you Beauty, but deny'd the Pelf 290 Kept Drofs for Ducheffes, the world fhall know it, To you gave Senfe, Good-humour, and a Poet. Plate XIV. Vol. III. facing p. 144. N.Blakey inv.& del». GScotin Sculp Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his Store, Sees but a backward Steward for the Poor;__ This Year a Reservoir, to keep and spare; The next, a Fountain, spouting thro his Heir.. on Riches. MORAL ESSAYS. EPISTLE III. то Allen Lord Bathurft. ARGUMENT. Of the Ufe of RICHES. THAT it is known to few, most falling into one of the extremes, Avarice or Profufion, 1, &c. The Point difcufs'd, whether the invention of Money has been more commodious, or pernicious to Mankind, 21 to 77. That Riches, either to the Avaricious or the Prodigal, cannot afford Happiness, fcarcely Neceffaries, 89 to 160. That Avarice is an absolute Frenzy, without an End or Purpose, 113, &c. 152. Conjectures about the Motives of Avaricious men, † 121 to 153. That the conduct of men, with respect to Riches, can only be accounted for by the ORDER OF PROVIDENCE, which works the general Good out K of Extremes, and brings all to it's great End by perpetual Revolutions, 161 to 178. How a Mifer acts upon Principles which appear to him reasonable, 179. How a Prodigal does the fame, 199. The due Medium, and true ufe of Riches, 219. The Man of Rofs, 250. The fate of the Profufe and the Covetous, in two examples; both miferable in Life and in Death, 300, &c. The Story of Sir Balaam, 339 to the end. |