162. Qu. Whether, if people must poison themselves, they had not better do it with their own growth?
163. Qu. If we imported neither claret from France, nor fir from Norway, what the nation would save by it?
164. Qu. When the root yieldeth insufficient nourishment, whether men do not top the tree to make the lower branches thrive?
165. Qu. Whether, if our ladies drank sage or balm tea out of Irish ware, it would be an insupportable national calamity?
166. Qu. Whether it be really true that such wine is best as most encourages drinking, i.e., that must be given in the largest dose to produce its effect? And whether this holds with regard to any other medicine?
167. Qu. Whether that trade should not be accounted most pernicious wherein the balance is most against us? And whether this be not the trade with France?
168. Qu. Whether it be not even madness to encourage trade with a nation that takes nothing of our manufacture?
169. Qu. Whether Ireland can hope to thrive if the major part of her patriots shall be found in the French interest?
170. Qu. Why, if a bribe by the palate or the purse be in effect the same thing, they should not be alike infamous?
171. Qu. Whether the vanity and luxury of a few ought to stand in competition with the interest of a nation?