Some of the paragraphs startle us by their directness and freedom of complaint, and even a very cool reader would still be likely to feel some of the wrath that was stirred in the breast of our shrewd and sober Arthur Young a generation later (1787).

"Go to the residence of these great nobles," he says, "wherever it may be, and you would probably find them in the midst of a forest, very well peopled with deer, wild boar, and wolves.

Oh! if I were the legislator of France for a day, I would make such great lords skip!"[166] This brings us to what is perhaps the most striking of all the guiding sentiments of the book.

Virgil's Georgics have been described as a glorification of labour.

The Encyclopaedia seems inspired by the same motive, the same earnest enthusiasm for all the purposes, interests, and details of productive industry.