...response among those who grow rich •as other classes arc impoverished. " These," says Dr. Johnson, '' rejoice when obstinacy or ambition adds another year...science, while they are adding figure to figure and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract for a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege...

...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations. These are the men, who, without virtue, labor or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoverished. They rejoice when obstinacy or...

...and Commiflari«, whole equipnges fliine like meteurs, and wbofe Palaces rife like exhalations. Thefe are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impovenlhetl ¡ ihey rejoice when ohftinacy or ambitnn adds another year to daughter and devaluation...