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must tend directly and powerfully to increase the comforts and enjoyments of mankind.
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
Footnotes for Essay V.
[1] The number of horses in Bavaria alone amount to above 160,000
[2] A particular account of these military posts is given in the Second Chapter of the First Essay.
[3] Suffice it to mention one among numberless facts, which might be brought to prove these assertions: The Beggars of our capital carry on an increasing and very lucrative trade, with confessional and communion testimonials, which they sell to people who daringly transgress the holy ecclesiastical laws, by neglecting to confess and receive the holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper at Easter. Some of these impious wretches receive the sacrament, at least twice in a day, in order not to lose their customers; if the demands for communion testimonials are great, or come late.----Ye priests and preachers of the gospel, can you still forbear raising your voices against Beggars?
[4] To these the President of the Chamber of Finances has since been added.
[5] Since the year 1792 the Elector, to relieve the Institution from that burden, has ordered the police guards to be paid out of the Public Treasury of the Chamber of Finances.
[6] The Bavarian pound which was used in these experiments, and which is divided into 32 loths, is to the pound Avoirdupois as 12,384 is to 10,000,--or nearly as 5 to 4.
End of Essays, Vol. 1
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
Footnotes for Essay V.
[1] The number of horses in Bavaria alone amount to above 160,000
[2] A particular account of these military posts is given in the Second Chapter of the First Essay.
[3] Suffice it to mention one among numberless facts, which might be brought to prove these assertions: The Beggars of our capital carry on an increasing and very lucrative trade, with confessional and communion testimonials, which they sell to people who daringly transgress the holy ecclesiastical laws, by neglecting to confess and receive the holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper at Easter. Some of these impious wretches receive the sacrament, at least twice in a day, in order not to lose their customers; if the demands for communion testimonials are great, or come late.----Ye priests and preachers of the gospel, can you still forbear raising your voices against Beggars?
[4] To these the President of the Chamber of Finances has since been added.
[5] Since the year 1792 the Elector, to relieve the Institution from that burden, has ordered the police guards to be paid out of the Public Treasury of the Chamber of Finances.
[6] The Bavarian pound which was used in these experiments, and which is divided into 32 loths, is to the pound Avoirdupois as 12,384 is to 10,000,--or nearly as 5 to 4.
End of Essays, Vol. 1