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