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Editorial
November 2, 1764
The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A series of rhetorical queries addressing political divisions, affection for the mother country, the impacts of foreign trade, legal rights, human imperfection, the need for industry and employment, and the virtues of busyness over idleness, drawing examples from Switzerland and China.
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QUERIES.
WHETHER we do not divide upon Trifles, and whether our Parties are not a Burlesque upon Politicks?
Whether our Mother Country doth not really love us, and wish well to us, as Bone of her Bone, and Flesh of her Flesh? And whether it be not our Part to cultivate this Love and Affection by all Manner of Ways?
What Sea-Ports and foreign Trade have the Swiss? and yet how warm are those People, and how well provided?
Whether there may not be found a People, who so contrive as to be impoverished by their Trade? And whether we are not that People?
Whether to determine about the Rights and Properties of Men by other Rules than the Law, be not dangerous?
Whether those Men who move the Corner Stone of a Constitution, may not pull an old House on their Head?
Whether there be any Thing perfect under the Sun? and whether it be not with the World as with a particular State, and with a State or Body politic as with the human Body, which lives and moves under various Indispositions, perfect Health being seldom or never to be found?
Whether it should not be a Gentleman's Care to keep his Faculties sound and entire?
Whether all Spirituous Liquors are not in Truth Opiates?
Whether our Men are not generally very grave by Fifty?
Whether the main Point be not to multiply and employ our People?
Whether in such a Soil as ours, if there was Industry, there could be Want?
Whether it be not a bad Circumstance to live among lazy Beggars? and whether on the other Hand, it would not be delightful to live in a Country swarming, like China, with busy People?
Whether we should not cast about, by all Manner of Means, to excite Industry, and to remove whatever hinders it? and whether every one should not lend a helping Hand?
Whether Vanity itself should not be engaged in this good Work? and whether it is not to be wished that the finding of Employment for themselves and others were a fashionable Distinction among the Ladies?
Whether Idleness be the Mother or the Daughter of Spleen?
Whether it may not be worth while to publish the Conversation of Ischomachus and his Wife in Xenophon, for the Use of the Ladies!
Whether it is true, that there have been, upon a Time, One Hundred Million of People employed in China, without any foreign Commerce?
WHETHER we do not divide upon Trifles, and whether our Parties are not a Burlesque upon Politicks?
Whether our Mother Country doth not really love us, and wish well to us, as Bone of her Bone, and Flesh of her Flesh? And whether it be not our Part to cultivate this Love and Affection by all Manner of Ways?
What Sea-Ports and foreign Trade have the Swiss? and yet how warm are those People, and how well provided?
Whether there may not be found a People, who so contrive as to be impoverished by their Trade? And whether we are not that People?
Whether to determine about the Rights and Properties of Men by other Rules than the Law, be not dangerous?
Whether those Men who move the Corner Stone of a Constitution, may not pull an old House on their Head?
Whether there be any Thing perfect under the Sun? and whether it be not with the World as with a particular State, and with a State or Body politic as with the human Body, which lives and moves under various Indispositions, perfect Health being seldom or never to be found?
Whether it should not be a Gentleman's Care to keep his Faculties sound and entire?
Whether all Spirituous Liquors are not in Truth Opiates?
Whether our Men are not generally very grave by Fifty?
Whether the main Point be not to multiply and employ our People?
Whether in such a Soil as ours, if there was Industry, there could be Want?
Whether it be not a bad Circumstance to live among lazy Beggars? and whether on the other Hand, it would not be delightful to live in a Country swarming, like China, with busy People?
Whether we should not cast about, by all Manner of Means, to excite Industry, and to remove whatever hinders it? and whether every one should not lend a helping Hand?
Whether Vanity itself should not be engaged in this good Work? and whether it is not to be wished that the finding of Employment for themselves and others were a fashionable Distinction among the Ladies?
Whether Idleness be the Mother or the Daughter of Spleen?
Whether it may not be worth while to publish the Conversation of Ischomachus and his Wife in Xenophon, for the Use of the Ladies!
Whether it is true, that there have been, upon a Time, One Hundred Million of People employed in China, without any foreign Commerce?
What sub-type of article is it?
Economic Policy
Social Reform
Partisan Politics
What keywords are associated?
Political Divisions
Mother Country
Foreign Trade
Industry Promotion
Idleness
China Example
Swiss Self Sufficiency
Constitutional Stability
What entities or persons were involved?
Mother Country
Swiss
China
Ischomachus And His Wife
Xenophon
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Rhetorical Queries On Politics, Trade, Industry, And Idleness
Stance / Tone
Inquisitive Promotion Of Unity, Industry, And Moral Reflection
Key Figures
Mother Country
Swiss
China
Ischomachus And His Wife
Xenophon
Key Arguments
Political Parties Divide Over Trifles
Cultivate Affection With Mother Country
Foreign Trade May Impoverish Rather Than Enrich
Uphold Law For Rights And Properties
Altering Constitution Risks Collapse
No Perfection Exists; Accept Imperfections
Promote Industry To Employ And Multiply People
Idleness Leads To Spleen; Busyness Is Delightful
Engage Vanity And Ladies In Finding Employment