Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Population and Riches of Nations: Considered Together, Not Only With Regard to Their Positive and Relative Increase, but With Regard to Their Tendency to Morals, Prosperity, and Happiness
A life to which books and intellectual employment have become from early and unbroken habit necessary would be burdensome to me, if I Should endea Vour to slend the largest portion Of 'my leisure in any other way. Having from native disposition of mind cherished a curiosity, perhaps far more extensive than was consistent either with my in dolence, or those numerous avocations and distractions caused by a most un prosperous course Of days I never could confine myself to a single track of studies; and have always perhaps been wildiy reaching at an expanse, which, like sha.
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