Note 829 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
"Never any country traded so much and consumed so little; they buy infinitely, but it is to sell again." "They furnish infinite luxury, which they never practise, and traffic in pleasures which they never taste" (Temple, Observations, 1814 ed. of Works, i, 176). Cp. Motley, United Netherlands, iv, 559. Sometimes the citizens were taxed fifty per cent on their incomes.