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?
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?
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