A cheerful simple honest people
"A cheerful, simple, honest people."
Another class of cottage may come within the farm enclosures, half poetical, and half economical, such as Milton describes:
"Hard by a cottage chimney smokes,
From betwixt two aged oaks;"
and occupied by a family pensioner and his infirm old wife - we don't think all "poor old folks" ought to go to the alms-house, because they cannot work every day of the year - of which all long-settled families of good estate have, now and then, one near to, or upon their premises. Thousands of kind and liberal hearts among our farming and planting brethren, whose impulses are -
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