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41
C
Theft Embezzlement and Fraudulent obtainment
Government of a good man master is like that of a father The Theft Domestic
obedience of a good servant has something in it of persons filial
Duty. They are continually in each others presence: they
have frequent occasions to converse & they become habituated
to each other: a look of plaintive reproach from a servant
where his master is dragging to prison must excite encite a
much different and much tenderer sensation in his prosecutor
than the severe look from a stranger would under
the like circumstances. A servant is much more likely
to find advocates and inters among the friends and
relations of the family.
Another thing is that people at large fail not to take
the circumstance into consideration. They expect that unless
these be something particularly atrocious in the case
the servant shall be forgiven The master is sensible of
this which is a farther circumstance that contibutes to
deter him from prosecuting
All these considerations make it more difficult to get
a man to prosecute his servant than a stranger even where these
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