The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cate fo that was fifh the common Food of the poor, it might put them too much upon an equality with their betters, in the great article of eating, in which, at prefent, in the opinion of fome, the great difference in happinels between man and man confifts. But this argument I fhall treat with the ut- inoft difdain : for if ortolans were as big as buftards, and at the fame time as plenty as fparrows, I fliould hold it yet reafonable to indulge the poor with the dainty, and that for this caufe efpe- cially, that the rich would foon find a fparrow, if as fcarce as an ortolan, to be much the greater, as it would cer¬ tainly be the rarer dainty of the two. Vanity or fcarcity will be always the favourite of luxury, but honed; hunger will be fatisfied with plenty. Not to fearch deeper into the caufe of the evil, I fhall think it abundantly fufficient to propofe the remedies of it. And, firff, I humbly fubmit the abfo- lute nece fifty of immediately hanging