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On the Treatment of Servants.
with their prejudices; for their religious notions are ſo over-run with them, that they are not eaſily ſeparated; and by trying to pluck up the tares, we may root up the wheat with them.
The woman who gives way to caprice and ill-humour in the kitchen, cannot eaſily ſmooth her brow when her huſband returns to his fire-ſide; nay, he may not only ſee the wrinkles of anger, but hear the diſputes at ſecond-hand. I heard a Gentleman ſay, it would break any man's heart to hear his wife argue ſuch a caſe. Men who are employed about things of
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