Plate XXXVI — The Husbandman
Were Death capable of considerations, what class of society would better deserve to be exempted from his ravages, than the labourers; incontestably the most useful, most laborious, and most productive of real opulence? But he is now striking the horses harnessed to this Husbandman’s plough; and this enemy of the human race can strike no blow more severely felt, than by thus attacking it in the source of its subsistence.