Part 114: The Farmer’s Happier Profession

A farmer’s is a very healthy happy life; and the least hurtful, or rather the most

beneficial profession of any. My uncle had an idea of his being educated as an advocate,

that through his interest he might become a judge. But, besides that he

is not at all fitted for such an occupation, it is certainly more creditable to cultivate the

earth for the sustenance of man, than to be the confidant, and sometimes the accomplice,

of his vices; which is the profession of a lawyer. I said, that the employments

of a prosperous farmer, if they were not a more honourable, they were at least

a happier species of occupation than that of a judge, whose misfortune it was always to