35^ ROAD HORSES. 



gree of impofition and every fpecies of adiil- 

 teration, upon the .plaufible plea of ftate ne- 

 ceffity and felf-prefervation. 



Of thefe houfes there are in fad: but two 

 diftiudt kinds, that fall within the neceffary 

 circumfpedion and remembrance of the tra- 

 veller, for they are generally in the oppofite 

 extreme ; the accommodations of one clafs 

 are hofpitabk, generous^ humane^ and conjci- 

 entlous ; the other, execrable to every excite- 

 ment of INDIGNATION. While the former 

 are exerting every nerve to acquire fubfiflence 

 and\obtain approbation, with honefty and 

 unfullied reputation ; the latter are deriving 

 indifcriminate fupport by every degree of 

 DECEPTION without doois, and every fpe- 

 cies of PECUNIARY oppreffion within. Ser- 

 vants, it is a maxim, foon acquire the virtues 

 or vices of their employers, if they indulge 

 a wifh to retain their fituations ; and upon 

 the truth of that ancient adage, ** birds of a 

 feather flock together,'* where you find the 

 wifli to pleafe predominant in the mafter or 

 miftrefs, you immediately obferve fympathe- 

 tic affiduity in their dependents ; and this re- 

 iTiark will hold good, with verjf few ex» 



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