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On the Treatment of Servants.
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is true we may often meet with ingratitude, but it ought not to diſcourage us; the refreſhing ſhowers of heaven fertilize the fields of the unworthy, as well as the juſt. We ſhould nurſe them in illneſs, and our ſuperior judgment in thoſe matters would often alleviate their pains.
Above all, we owe them a good example. The ceremonials of religion, on their account, ſhould be attended to; as they always reverence them to a ſuperſtitious degree, or elſe neglect them. We ſhould not ſhock the faith of the meaneſt fellow-creature; nay more, we ſhould comply
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