LXXIII.
A great unhappinesse it is to the Nobility and Gentry, that they do not measure their ex∣pences, so as to keep them somewhat under their annual
Observations and advices oeconomical
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- Title
- Observations and advices oeconomical
- Author
- North, Dudley North, Baron, 1602-1677.
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- London :: Printed by T.R. for John Martyn ...,
- 1669.
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- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
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Revenue, by which being done they may continue a fair subsi∣stence, and not otherwise. They consider high living as a great happinesse, and the least diminution of pomp, as a great dishonour, which causeth them to continue their wastful way, presuming of a supply to come to them out of the Clouds. This is no lesse then folly, yet those may deserve some pitty, who have not put themselves into that height, but were left in it by their Parents. For this the remedy is easie, for com∣mon prudence forbids all men, to continue in a consumptive condition, without absolute necessity, and therefore much better it is (though it give oc∣casion of discourse to the peo∣ple) to slack sail betimes by a
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reduction of the grounds of their expence, then to be dis∣honoured at last totally, by a ruine which might have been prevented in a resolution ma∣turely taken. And let them not think themselves dishonour∣ed, for there is no justification so sure, as that which is built upon necessity.