Men, on the other hand, knowing their privileges safe in well-trained hands, can afford a tolerant attitude. Of what use to keep a dog and bark oneself? But let the dog show the faintest signs of negligence; let his “yap yap” become ever so little fainter, and instantly his alarmed master grasps the whip and prepares for fierce defence of his rights and property.

[…] I once ſaw a corpulent general-officer ſtart ſuddenly, as if he had ſeen ſomething preternatural. […] While all the ſpectators were a tiptoe to obſerve the iſſue of this phenomenon, he arrived at the ranks, and in great wrath, which probably had been augmented by the heat acquired in his courſe, he pulled off one of the ſoldier's hats, which it ſeems had not been properly cocked, and adjuſted it to his mind.

I apprehend, would be that the proposition thus advanced rests fundamentally upon the mistaken assumption that the failure to pay a legal debt makes the debtor in equity the indemnificator of his creditor against losses resulting from such nonpayment.

Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?