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The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copper plates; done from the original designs ... ; to which are prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the scripture text from which the designs were taken
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PLATE XXXVI.— THE HUSBANDMAN.

W ehe Death capable of considerations, what class of societyWould better deserve to be exempted from his ravages, than thelabourers; incontestably the most useful, most laborious, andmost productive of real opulence ? But he is novv striking thehorses harnessed to this Husbandman's plough ; and this enemyof the human race can strike no blow moreseverely feit, than bythus attacking it in the source of its subsistence.

In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo. Gen. iii. 19.

PLANCHE XXXVI.— LE LABOUREUR.

OilaMortpouvoit user de quelque consideration, qu'elle classede la societe meriteroit mieux d'en etre menagee que celle dulaboureur, sans contredit la plus utile, la plus laborieuse, & laplus productive des veritables richesses ? Mais eile frappe dejales chevaux atteles ä la charrue de ce Cultivateur, & cette en-nemie du genre humain ne sauroit lui porter des coups plus sen-sibles qu'en l'attaquant dansles sources de sa subsistance.

 
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