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Often appears with: moral responsibility · money, coin, and credit · marriage and betrothal · contracts, oaths, and obligation · candidus’ ruin · bonds and contracts
Usually: narrative (1) · betrayal (1) · injustice endured (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1)
The narrative continues: Candidus’ protected ward becomes a spendthrift who flees with money and ruins his patron, leading Johnson to argue contracts and bonds fail without reciprocal safeguards.
youth for a few years at his own house, afterwards placed him with a merchant of eminence, and gave bonds to a great value as a security for his conduct. The young man, removed too early from the only eye of which he dreaded the observation, and deprived of the only instruction which he heard with reverence, soon learned to consider virtue as restraint, and restraint as oppression: and to look with a longing eye at …