152. Qu. Whether it can be hoped that private persons will not indulge this folly, unless restrained by the public?
153. Qu. How vanity is maintained in other countries? Whether in Hungary, for instance, a proud nobility are not subsisted with small imports from abroad?
154. Qu. Whether there be a prouder people upon earth than the noble Venetians, although they all wear plain black clothes?
155. Qu. Whether a people are to be pitied that will not sacrifice their little particular vanities to the public good? And yet, whether each part would not except their own foible from this public sacrifice, the squire his bottle, the lady her lace?
156. Qu. Whether claret be not often drank rather for vanity than for health, or pleasure?
157. Qu. Whether it be true that men of nice palates have been imposed on, by elder wine for French claret, and by mead for palm sack?
158. Qu. Do not Englishmen abroad purchase beer and cider at ten times the price of wine?
159. Qu. How many gentlemen are there in England of a thousand pounds per annum who never drink wine in their own houses? Whether the same may be said of any in Ireland who have even? one hundred pounds per annum.
160. Qu. What reasons have our neighbours in England for discouraging French wines which may not hold with respect to us also?
161. Qu. How much of the necessary sustenance of our people is yearly exported for brandy?