Doily
is still fresh in every one's Memory, who raised a Fortune by finding out Materials for such Stuffs as might at once be cheap and genteel. I
heard it affirmed, that had not he discovered this frugal Method of gratifying our Pride, we should hardly have been
able
to carry on the last War.
I regard Trade not only as highly advantageous to the Commonwealth in general; but as the most natural and likely Method of making a Man's Fortune, having observed, since my being a
Spectator
in the World, greater Estates got about