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Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1787 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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TheJfeiiJfSrlal Leariii^^s offlieSiales of Mafsacliusetts^NAorlv The Armorial gar fclafs of hufljandmen have onlyfome general, rude, imperfcdl, andirrational habits, from which theycan be no more moved, than a dullfturdy afs can be gotten to mendhis pace,; and they are generally foaverfe to all nevs^ practices, that it isfound impoflible to infufe better^ra6lices into their heads by anybther means than by fome one ma-nifeft example at a time, repeatedand reiterated under their nofes.The ftubbonrnnefs of their natures(continues Mr. Hartlib) is difco-tered in this, that when the moft ra-tional ways to make their llarvedland bear good crops are difcoveredand held out to therii, they utterly- reje6l that notice, deride the pro-pofers and inventors, and endeavourio retard or defeat the praftice, lefttheir ignorance or envy fliould bethereby expofed. There are peoplebelow the medium of underftandingand goodnefs, who have no otherway of feeming to be of confequencethan by pulling down better

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