Excerpt from The Gentleman Farmer: Being an Attempt to Improve Agriculture, by Subjecting It to the Test of Rational Principles Irregular appetites and ambitious views, igrici ture is of all occupations the melt confonant bl our nature and the mall produflive of content ment, the fweeteit fort of happinefs. In the firfi place, it requires that moderate degree of em. Cife, which correfponds the molt to the ordinary fucccfiion -of our perceptions. Fox-hunting pro duces a fuccefiion too rapid F angling produces a fuccefiion too flow. Agriculture correfponds not only more to the ordinary fuccellion, but has the following fignal property, that the farmer can dig reel his operations, with that degree of quicknefe and variety, which is the belt fuitcd to his own train of perceptions. In the next place, to every occupation that. Can give a lalling reliih, hope and fear are eifential. A fowler has little enjoyment in his gun, who miites frequently andrhe lofes all enjoyment, when every {hot is death a poacher, fo dextrous, may have pleafure in the profit, but none in the art. The hopes and fears that attend agriculture, keep the mind always a, wake, and in an enlivening degree of agitation. Hope never approaches certainty [0 near, as to produce fecurity; nor is fear ever fo great, as to create deep anxiety and dillrefs. Hence It is, that a gentleman farmer, tolerably fltilful, never. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.