Query 1. Whether there ever was, is, or will be, an industrious nation poor, or an idle rich? 2. Qu. Whether a people can be called poor, where the common sort are well fed, clothed, and lodged? 3. Qu. Whether the drift and aim of every wise State should not be, to encourage industry in its members? And whether those who employ neither heads nor hands for the common benefit deserve not to be expelled like drones out of a well-governed State? 4. Qu. Whether the four elements, and man's labour the

Query 1. Whether there be any country in Christendom more capable of improvement than Ireland? 2. Qu. Whether we are not as far before other nations with respect to natural advantages, as we are behind them with respect to arts and industry? 3. Qu. Whether we do not live in a most fertile soil and temperate climate, and yet whether our people in general do not feel great want and misery? 4. Qu. Whether my countrymen are not readier at finding excuses than remedies? 5. Qu. Whether it can be reaso

Query 1. Whether the fable of Hercules and the carter ever suited any nation like this nation of Ireland? 2. Qu. Whether it be not a new spectacle under the sun, to behold, in such a climate and such a soil, and under such a gentle government, so many roads untrodden, fields untilled, houses desolate, and hands unemployed? 3. Qu. Whether there is any country in Christendom, either kingdom or republic, depending or independent, free or enslaved, which may not afford us a useful lesson? 4. Qu. Whe