The king [Harolde] himselfe stoode afoote by the standarce, and his brethren Girthe and Leofwine with him, to the ende that in such a common perill and ieopardy, no man should once thinke to flie or run away. Stow. Chronicle, an. 1000. AFORE, ad. Written by Chaucer, Aforen, AFORE, prep. Aforne. On the fore part. It is much used in composition; but without effecting any change of usage in the component words. (See FORE.) It is applied to Precedence in order of time; in order of place; end, metaphorically, to the desires and pursuits of the mind. I meane this, that trespace hight But reason conceiueth of a sight This prisoner afore the kynge Was brought: and therupon this thynge In audience he was accused.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii. He, back returning by the yuorie dore, Remounted up as light as cheerfull larke, And on his little winges the dreame he bore In haste unto his lord, where he him left afore. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1. Those who have gone afore me in that argument have made so copious a harvest, that the issue of my gatherings must needs have been but small.-Hales. Gold. Rem. Ser.1. While Rodmond, fearful of some neighbouring shore, Cries ever and anon, "Look out afore !"-Falconer. Shipw. AFRE'SH. In fresh. See FRESH. Pandarus Gan draw him to the window nie the strete The yonder house, that stant aforyene vs.-Id. Troil. b. ii. Wherefore let vs make our prayer [that we] may through our owne repentaunce and his mercye, be renued afreshe to attayne his endlesse glory.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1390. The faction still defying Edward's might, Edmond of Woodstock, with the men of Kent, Charging afresh, renew the doubtful fight Upon the barons languishing and spent. But for he wolde a while abide To loke, if he wolde him amende, To him afore token he sende, And that was in his slepe by night.-Gower. Con. 4. b. i. No more thy soothing voice my anguish chears, 'Tis meet that I should mourn, flow forth afresh my tears. Beattie. Minstrel. In front. See AFFRONT. AFRONT. That day, as fortune was, Euander king, in solemne guise, His patron feast did keepe, with honors great to Gods in skies. But vnto Hercules most chiefe, in greene-wood groue upstald Afront the towne.-Phaer. Eneidos, b. viii. Ne Turnus sluggish sloth doth stay, but fierce with speed he bends Gainst Troians all his power, and on the shore afront them tends.-Id. Ib. b. x. In after ages it [Carlisle] had its share successively in the Drayton. Barons' Wars. history of Saxons, Danes, and Scots; and during the revolutions of these several nations, was the scene of every vicissitude of war.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes. Falst. These foure [rogues] came all a-front and mainly thrust at me; I made no more adoe, but tooke all their seuen points in my targuet.-Shakes. Hen. IV. Act ii. sc. 4. I sought the shade in vale, which low did lie, Where we reposde vs on a greene wood side, Afront the which a siluer streame did glide. Succession, or subsequence, or consequence, in order of time; in order of place: and, metaShakespeare. Hen. V. Act iii. sc. 1. phorically, to the desires and pursuits of the mind. Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 651. Goth. Aftaro; A. S. Efter, supposed by Tooke to be the comparative of the noun Aft (A. S. Eft.) Hind, Aft, and Back, have the same meaning. A/FT, AFTER, prep. A'FTER, ad. AFTEREYE. AFTERWARDS. Tooke, i. 444. After, is much used in composition, but without effecting any change in the usage of the component words. See the quotations from Milton and Gilpin. After-eye, is used as a verb by Shakespeare. To eye or look after. After, is applied to In the vyf hondred ger of Grace Seynt Austyn hyder com Help thi kynne Crist bit. [bid] for ther by gynneth charite Therfore kepe ye and do ye alle thingis, whatever thingis, thei seyen to you: but nyle ye do aftir hir werkis; for thei seien and do not.-Wiclif. Matt. c. 23. All therfore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and do but do not ye after their workes: for they saye, and do not.-Bible, 1539. Matt. c. 23. And saw the fox toward the wode is gon And bare upon his back the cok away. They crieden, out! harow and wala wa! Aha the fox! and after him they ran And eke with staves many another man. Imo. Thou should's have made him As little as a crow, or lesse, ere left To after-eye him.-Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act i. sc. 4. Chaucer. Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15,388. AGAINWARD. genen, means to meet, to oppose, AGA'INSAY. to rencontre. The collateral A. S. verb,-from which the adverb Against, in A. S. Ongegen, appears to be lost, (v. Tooke, i. 423.) Again; turn again, i. e. turn to meet; to opDo this again; pose; to withstand; to return. i. e. to meet, a new demand, a new emergency; to act, and continue to act in return; to persist in meeting, or opposing; and hence the application to frequent repetitions. Wiclif uses, Aghen-buying, i. e. redemption; Aghen-rising, i. e. resurrection ; Aghen-stand, i. e. resist; Aghen-say, i. e. contradict. Dryden writes Agen, or Again, to suit his rhyme. So com a tempest wilde, his schip had alle ouer ronnen. R. Brunne, p. 124. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2343. For wele I feele in my degree, I may be dead, er I beware.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. But him (according as they had decreed) Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vii. c. 6. Id. b. iii. c. 12. The agate (or agath) was in old time of great estimation, but now it is in more request. Found it was first in Sicilie neare unto a river called likewise Achates, but afterwards in many other places.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 10. With him ther was his sone a yonge squier With lockes crull as they were laid in presse Chaucer. Prologue. The Squier. Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend Happy and innocent were the ages of our forefathers, who ate herbs and parched corn, and drank the pure stream, and broke their fast with nuts and roots. Bp. Taylor. Holy Living and Dying. Near this my muse, what most delights her, sees Bold sons of earth, that thrust their arms so high, A/GE. A/GENCY, n. Fr. Agent; It. Agente; Sp. By the rushy fringed bank Thick set with agat.-Milton. Comus, v. 893. Nor can I think, that any body has such an idea of chance, as to make it an agent, or really existing and acting cause of any thing, and much less sure of all things. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5. That act, which may be denominated morally good or distinguishing, Per telligent or free agent.—Id. Ib. s. 1. A'GE, n. A'GE, v. haps originally applied to time, evil, must be the act of a being capable of dieting an inA'GED. past, gone, agone. A. S. Agan, A'GEDNESS. preteritus, exactus. And then generally to all time: or rather, as the A. S. Ece, from Ec-an, Eac-an, to eke, to prolong, to augment, (See ACHE,) is applied to a lasting, an everlasting continuance of time; ece, may have become age or eage by the mere change of c hard into g hard, and in course of time softened :-and mean, A prolonged or lengthened course of time; a Fro the by gynnyng of the world, to the tyme that now is, Agent, one who, that which, acts, orders, operates, performs, manages, conducts; one who acts (for another, as substitute, or deputy); a factor. A moral agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil, in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.-Edwards. On the Will, pt. i. s. 5. The moral agency of the Supreme Being, who acts only in the capacity of a ruler, towards his creatures, and never as a subject, differs in that respect from the moral agency of created intelligent beings.-Id. Ib. Should God again, GELID. Ice is plain upon the surface of water, but round in hayl and figured in its guttulous descent from the ayr, and so growing greater or lesser according unto the accretion or pluvious aggelation about the mother and fundamental atomes thereof.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1. AGGENERATION, n. Ad-generare, genus, yiveσlai, to be. See GENERATE. To make a perfect nutrition into the body nourished, there is required a transmutation of the nutriment; now where this conversion or aggeneration is made, there is also required in the aliment a familiarity of matter. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 21. AGGLOMERATE, v. Į Lat. Agglomerare, (Ad-glomerare.) AGGLOMERATION. To roll up into balls. See CONGLOMERATE. Besides, the hard agglomerating salts, Warton. Hist. of Eng. Poetry, vol. ii. p. 223. note o. his treaties with Holland, Sweden, and the princes sites of the empire, he (Richelieu] projected the agandment of France.-Bolingbroke. On History, Let. 7. Let the small savage boast his silver fur; Ls royal robe unborrow'd, and unbought, His descending fairly from his sires. Sman be proud to wear his livery, Anses in ermin scorn a soul without? Can place or lessen us, or aggrandize?-Young. Night 6. We may date from the treaty of Munster, the decline of the e of Austria, the great power of the house of Bourbon, and the aggrandisement of that of Brandenburgh. Chesterfield, Let. 159. AGGRAVATE, v. Fr. Aggraver; It. gravare; Sp. Agravar; Lat. Aggravare, (Adperhaps (says Vossius) geravis Ts, heavy then Auredge, or Aggrege, are used by Chaucer G. Douglas, which Tyrwhitt and Ruddiman der to the French Aggreger (See AGGREGATE), and interpret, to aggravate.-Ingravat and Agyret, are both rendered Aggrege by Douglas. And therfore a vengeaunce is not warished by another Tegance, ne a wrong by another wrong, but everich of en entreseth and aggreggelh other. Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus. Some tyme a thynge righte well entended and mis-contred hath been turned to the worse, or a small displeasure en to you, either by youre owne affection, either by instigaof euill tongues hath been sore aggrauate.-Hall. Ed.V. Mos. O, but before, sir; had you heard him, first, I doubte not that here be many presente that either in slurs or their nigh frendes, as well their goodes as persones were greately endangered either by fained quets or small matters aggrauated with heinous names. Id. Ib. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5. Ag-liberty, or honour.] and you must reduce it from one set of The aggregated soil, As Delos, floating once.-Millon. Paradise Lost, b. x. For, seeing the church is a society of men, whereof every one (according to the doctrine of the Romish church) hath free-will in believing, it follows, that the whole aggregate hath free-will in believing. Chillingworth. Relig. of Protestants, pt. i. c. 2. § 34. Empedocles and Epicurus, and all those that compound the world of small atoms, introduce concretions and secretions, but no generations or corruptions properly so called; neither would they have these to be made according to quality by alteration, but only according to quantity by aggregation.-Cudworth. Intell. System. p. 15. To save the credit of the author, [the word now] must be favourably understood to be meant of such customs, as were in use either before the Conquest or at the Conquest, or at any time since, in the disjunctive, not in the aggregative.-Spelman. On Feuds, c. 14. Jacobus de Dondis, the aggregator, repeats ambergreese, nutmegs, and all-spice amongst the rest. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 365. Some are modest, and hide their virtues; others hypocritical, and conceal their vices under shews of sanctity, good nature, or something that is specious. So that it is many times hard to discern, to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated. Corporations aggregate consist of many persons united together into one society, and are kept up by a perpetual succession of members, so as to continue for ever. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 18. Many little things, though separately they seem too insignificant to mention, yet aggregately are too material for me to omit.-Chesterfield. Letters. The rage dispers'd, the glorious pair advance, Prior. Ode to Q. Anne. Leagues, offensive and defensive, which oblige the princes Self-preservation requires all men not only barely to defend themselves against aggressors, but many times also to prosecute such, and only such, as are wicked and dangerous. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, § 1. As the public crime is not otherwise avenged than by forfeiture of life and property, it is impossible afterwards to make any reparation for the private wrong: which can only be had from the body or goods of the aggressor. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 1. AGGRAVATE and AGGRIEVE, v. Į See GRIEF. To bear heavy upon, to weigh down, to sink, to depress (with sorrow or affliction); to afflict, to distress, to vex. Grete was that linage and many to them cheued, For John, ther is a lawe that saieth thus, Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4179. What aileth you to grone in this manere? Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,899. Yet was I neuer of your loue agreued, Sir T. Wyat. The Louer waxeth, &c. And thys pacyfyer aggrieueth the cleargye of England, for vse of the lawes not made by themself, but be common lawes of al chrystendome.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1015. Duke. Beaum. & Fletch. Fair Maid of the Inn, Act iii. sc. 1. The aggrieved person shall do more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in claiming the due right whereof he is frustrated, than to piece up his lost contentment by visiting the stews, or stepping to his neighbour's bed. Milton. On the Doct. and Discip. of Divorce, b. i. c. 2. Those pains that afflict the body, are afflictive just so long as they actually possess the part which they aggrieve; but their influence lasts no longer than their presence. South, vol. viii. Ser. 1. We must have the same regard for the members; they aggrouppe, and contrast each other in the same manner as figures do.-Dryden. Obser. on the Art of Painting, § 132. Bodies of divers natures, which are aggroupp'd (or com bined) together, are agreeable and pleasant to the sight. Id. Dufresnoy, § 60. AGILE, adj. Fr. Agile; It. Agile; Sp. Agil; AGILITY. Lat. Agilis; from Agere, to act. Able to act with readiness, to move with individual momentary aggregation, but it is an idea of con- quickness, nimbleness; nimble, quick in action, Because a nation is not an idea of local extent and active. tinuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and To march or advance against; as foe against Prior. Solomon, b. iii. He that before wholly attended upon his body to make it excel in strength or agility, that he might contend victoriously in the Olympic games, then made it his business to improve and advance his soul in knowledge and virtue. Bates. Immortality of the Soul. First he bids spread Dry fern or litter'd hay, that may imbibe Th' ascending damps; then leisurely impose, And lightly, shaking it with agile hand From the full fork, the saturated straw. Couper. Task, b. iii. Thus moche wol I say, that when thou prayest, that God shuld foryeve thee thy giltes as thou foryevest hem that have agilled thee, be well ware that thou be not out of charitee. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. AGIST, v. AGISTER. AGI'STMENT. The lying, and consequentially pasturing, of one man's cattle in another's ground, on payment of a certain sum of money, or other good consideration. A forest hath laws of her own, to take cognizance of all trespasses; she hath also her peculiar officers, as foresters, verderers, regarders, agisters, &c. whereas a chase or park hath only keepers and woodwards.-Howell, Let. 4. p. 16. Manie other ordinances were decreed touching the preseruation of forrests, and the king's prerogatiue, aduantages and profits rising and growing by the same, as well for Bauing of his woods and wasts, as in pannage and agistements.-Holinshed. Chron. Rich. I. an. 1198. By an attentive examination of the peculiarities in enunciation which each people have, in the one way or the other, by a fair reciprocal analysis of the agnate words they reciprocally use, I think a much greater agnation may be found amongst all the languages in the northern hemisphere of our globe.-Pownall. On the Study of Antiquities. This I take to be the true reason of the constant pre From Fr. Giste, a lying place, from the verb Gésir, to lye.ference of the agnatic succession, or issue derived from the Skinner. Applied to male ancestors, through all the stages of collateral in heritance.-Blackstone. Com. b. ii. c. 14. The taylor, the carrier, the inn-keeper, the agisting farmer, the pawnbroker, the distreinor, and the general bailee, may all of them vindicate in their own right. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 30. If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment, he takes them upon an implied contract, to return them on demand to the owner.-Id. Ib. A'GITATE, v. Fr. Agiter; It. Agitare; AGITATION. Sp. Agitar; Lat. Agitare, AGITATOR. freq. of Agere, to act. To act with frequent and repeated motion; to shake. Metaphorically, to discuss. To keep the mind in constant action; to disturb, to distract. Those whom Clarendon and Whitelock call Agitators, Ludlow and Wood denominate Adjutators. Whitelock Agents or Agitators for each regiment; Ludlow at their first appointment Agitators, afterwards Adjutators. Suche is the mutacion of the comon people like a rede with euery wind is agitable and flexible. The adjutators began to change their discourse, and to complain openly in council, both of the king, and the malignants about him.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 84. Putrefaction asketh rest; for the subtill motion, which putrefaction requireth, is disturbed by an agitation. Bacon. Natural History, § 344. -I was alwaies plaine with you, and so now I speake my agitation of the matter. Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. sc. 5. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amaz'd night-wanderer from his way. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix. He [Thomas Harrison] was the person appointed by Oliver, or at least the adjutators of the army, to go to Hurst castle where the king was prisoner. Wood. Fasti Oxon. The common soldiers made choice of three or four of each regiment, most corporals or sergeants, few or none above the degree of an ensign, who were called agitators, and were to be as a house of commons to the council of officers. Clarendon. History of the Rebellion, b. x. The future pleases: Why? The present pains- In every district in the kingdom, there is some leading man, some agitator, some wealthy merchant, or considerable manufacturer, some active attorney, some popular preacher, some money-lender, &c. who is followed by the whole flock. Burke. On the Duration of Parliaments. A'GLET. See AIGLET. AGNATE, adj. Fr. Agnation; It. Agnato; Sp. Agnado; Lat. Agnatus, part. of Ad, or, Ag-nasci, borne to, of kin, allied to. Legally applied by Blackstone, to issue derived from the male an cestors. AGNIZE, v. Lat. Agnoscere, Agnitum, (Ad-noscere,) to acknowledge. AGNITION. See RECOGNIZE. That he may deliuer vp vnto Messias at his comyng, a people not vtterly vntraded or vnentered i his discipline, but somwhat prepaired already & instructed therunto with ye agnisyng & knowlageyng of theyr owne synfulnesse. Udal. Luke, c. 1. p. 7. Iesus of Nazareth was borne in Bethlem, a city of Iuda: where incontinent by the glorification of the angels, the agnition of the shepherds, the veneration of the wise men, the prophecy of holy Simeon, and the admiration of the doctours he was had in honour. AGNOMINATE, v. Į Hall. Edw. IV. an. 9. Such who own In evil times, undaunted, though alone, His glorious truth, such He will crown with praise, And glad agnize before his Father's throne. Edwards, Son. 11. Lat. Agnominatio, AGNOMINATION. (Ad-nomen.) Lat. Agnomen is a name to; i. e. in addition to. To name, or call by name. words of similar sound: or to allusions founded Agnomination is applied to the repetition of upon some other fancied resemblance. Neither am I come to please thee, or to set the agog with a vain salutacion, but I am come vnto thee as a messagier of a matier bothe passyng ioyful, & also verai great. Udal. Luke, c. i. The gaudy gossip when she's set agog, Dryden. Juven. Sat. 6. They [the gipsies] generally straggle into these parts about this time of the year, and set the heads of our servantmaids so agog for husbands, that we do not expect to have any business done as it should be whilst they are in the country. Spectator, No. 130. zare; Fr. Agoniser; It. AgonizSp. Agonizar; Lat. Agon; Gr. Aywv; certamen, conflictus; a co conflictus; a contest, a conAgon and Agonistical are particularly applied to the contests of prize fighters: Agonize and Agony, to A'GON, n. Those bodily or mental struggles and conflicts which are accompanied by excessive pain; to any violent struggle or conflict. And he was maad in agonye, and preiede the lenger, and his swoot was maad as dropis of blood rennynge doun into the erthe.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 22. hys sweate was lyke droppes of bloud, trycklynge downe And he was in an agonye, and prayed the longer. And to ye groude.-Bible, 1539. Ib. And thus wepende she complaineth Hir faire face and all disteineth So that vpon this agonie Her husbonde is in come And sawe how she was ouercome Gower. Con. A. b.i. 2 Tim. c. 4. vv. 7. 8. These two verses are wholly agonistical.-Hammond. Annot. The prophetick writings were not, saith St. Peter, (I conceive it in an agonistick sense,) of their own starting or incitation.-Id. Works, vol. iv. p. 589. He is an object of much pity that over-affects any temper things whatsoever. For, beyond what is spoken ay, it egosies his mind perpetually, and throws him on Abe mischief.-Feltham. Sermon, Luke xiv. 20. I whether lately through her brightness blind, rough alleageance and fast fealtie, I do owe unto all woman kind, my heart pearc't with so great agony, Nefert, nor shall be twice. Milton. Par. Lost, b. ix.. 31 man be falsely famed wil make purgatioun Two the officers be agramed A. asse him fro toun to toun Sede he muste pay raunsome he be cleme as is christall As than haue an absolution & all rich false shull foule fall.-Chaucer. Ploum.Tale. A equal agrarion is a perpetual law establishing and ving the balance of dominion by such a distribution, one man or number of men within the compass of fe or aristocrary, can com to overpower the whole peoPP by their possessions in lands.-Harrington. Oceana, p.54. change their abode; or with mention and upon condition of Per agrarian laws were such, whereby their lands ought e in divided among the people, either without mentax of a colony, in which case they were not oblig'd to Agrarian laws, began to be promulgated within three and twenty years, and continued till the end of the commonwealth to produce the same disorders. Bolingbroke. Dissertation upon Parties, Let. 13. The sterres shinen more agreably whan the wind Nothus letteth his plungy blasts.-Id. Boecius, b. iii. All fortune is blisful to a man, by the agreability or by the egality of hym that suffereth it.-Id. Ib. b. ii. Then it is well seen, how wretched is the blisfulnesse of mortall things that neither it dureth perpetuell with hem, that euery fortune receiuen agreeably or egally, ne it deliteth not in all to hem that ben anguishous.-Id. Ib. This house [Symon's in Bethany] presēteth vnto vs, the agreyng, and frendely felowshyp of the church; the which beyng vncleane, he washed and purified with his precious bloude.-Udal. Mark, c. 14. For my spirite agreeth not with the spirite of this worlde, and my doctrine is wholly agaynste the affections of them, which loue the thynges that be of this worlde. Id. Matth. c. 28. And thus the couenaunt that ye made wt death, shall be disannulled and your agrement that ye made with hell, shall not stande. Bible, 1539. Isa. c. 28. AGRARIAN, adj. Į Lat. Agrarius, Agrestis; As nothing that is agreeable to us can be painful at the At last he met two knights to him vnknowne, Sheldon. On the Miracles of Antichrist. When we possess ourselves with the utmost security of the demonstration, that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right ones, what do we more but perceive, that equality to two right ones does necessarily agree, and is inseparable from the three triangles. Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. vi. c. 1. The agreablenesse of dissimulation doth almost every day surmount the homely simplicitie of truth; nay, and some would have it passe for a rule of court to confesse that he perceived the stars, if another would maintaine it to be night at high noone.-Evelyn. Of Liberty & Servitude, c. 5. In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnance of any of our ideas. Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. iv. c. 1. Goldsmith. Retaliation. The motives which the heathens had to the practice of their duty, were generally drawn by their best authors on this subject, from the agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature, and from the advantage and necessity of them to society.-Pearce, vol. i. Ser. 5. What would I not give, to have you read Demosthenes critically in the morning, and understand him better than any body; at noon, behave yourself better than any person at court; and, in the evenings, trifle more agreeably than any body in mixed companies-Chesterfield, Let. 177. This general agreement of the senses is yet more evident on minutely considering those of taste and smell. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful. AGRICOLIST. tum.) John Scott has an eclogue entitled The The culture or tillage of land; labour for the improvement, for the fertility of land. Fr. Agriculture; It. Agricoltura; Sp. Agricultura; Lat. Agricola, Agricultura, They chanc't upon an hill not farne away, AGRISE, v. Į A. S. Agris-an, horrere, to Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9. In hope there newes to learne, how they mote best assay. probably formed upon the verb Hrys-an, Ge-hrys- To shudder, or cause to shudder; to confound, to terrify. See CRUSH. Those geoponical rules and precepts of agriculture which are delivered by divers authors, are not to be generally received: but respectively understood unto climes, whereto they are determined.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 3. Trade wields the sword, and agriculture leaves Her half-turn'd furrow: other harvest fire A nobler avarice, avarice of renown. Young. On the Situation of the Kingdom. providing a constant subsistence; and this necessity proIt became necessary to pursue some regular method of duced, or at least promoted and encouraged, the art of agriculture.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 1. By giving a sort of monopoly of the home market to its own merchants, artificers, and manufacturers, it raises the rate of mercantile and manufacturing profit, in proportion to that of agricultural profit; and, consequently, draws employed in it.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 9. from agriculture a part of the capital which had before been The pasture, and the food of plants, Tho were the porters agrise sore of thulke sizte & caste Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tales, v. 5035. |