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Often appears with: moral virtues by profession · labor, wages, and the division of work · justice as a virtue · corruption through small breaches · contracts, oaths, and obligation · broken promises
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · the test or trial (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
“Every man has daily occasion to remark what vexations arise from this privilege of deceiving one another.” Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Vol · observation
An essay argues that moral excellence can be found across professions and ranks, praises punctuality as a trader’s core virtue, and warns that everyday broken promises spread into deeper corruption.
he was not instructed; and he that shall inquire after virtue with ardour and attention, will seldom find a man by whose example or sentiments he may not be improved. Every profession has some essential and appropriate virtue, without which there can be no hope of honour or success, and which, as it is more or less cultivated, confers within its sphere of activity different degrees of merit and reputation. As the a…