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The Obſervance of Sunday.
indulge themſelves in things which are generally thought wrong. I am fully perſuaded, that ſervants have ſuch a notion of card-playing, that where-ever it is practiſed of a Sunday their minds are hurt; and the barrier between good and evil in ſome meaſure broken down. Servants, who are accuſtomed to bodily labour, will fall into as laborious pleaſures, if they are not gently reſtrained, and ſome ſubſtitute found out for them.
Such a cloſe attention to a family may appear to many very diſagreeable; but the path of duty will be found pleaſant after ſome time; and
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