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Pope, Alexander. Letter to Bathurst. Of The Use of Riches. 1733, I. 155-156.

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1735.

Malthus, Thomas [published anonymously]. An Essay on the Principle of Population. London: J. Johnson, 1798, ch. 1.

Beckford, William [published anonymously]. An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, translated by Samuel Henley. London: J. Johnson, 1786.

Collier, Mary. "The Three Wise Sentences, from the First Book of Esdras." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.

Burke, Edmund. A Letter to John Farr and John Harris, Esqs., Sheriffs of the City of Bristol, on the Affairs of America. London: J. Dodsley, 3 Apr. 1777.

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 4, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1788, ch. 38.

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 2.

Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.