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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. THE GAMING HOUSE AN ANTE-ROOM TO THE GALLOWS. "Man courts happiness in a thousand shapes, and the faster he follows it the swifter it flies from him. Almost everything promiseth happiness to us at a distance; but when we come nearer to it, either we fall short of it, or it falls short of our expectation; and it is hard to say which of these is the greatest disappointment." Tillotson. He plays the game of the great enemy who places temptation in the way of others. If this conclusion be deemed sound in a general point of view, it has special force when applied to the young, who, with principles scarcely fixed, with great inexperience of life, surrounded by much that is novel and much that is bewildering, require to be fenced in and protected by every restriction and safeguard which can be ranged around them. To them command and control of money should, surely, be slowly, gradually, and sparingly entrusted; and only after their bent, disposition, habits, and principles, have been accurately ascertained. The contrary course is cruelty. Poor Weston feelingly alludes to this omission in his touching defence. As to the other popular haunt, to the delirium and excitement of which he mainly ascribes his fall, that may safely be pronounced a scene in which the Tempter daily and hourly triumphs. The gaming house! How many hundreds has it swiftly conducted to the felon's dock, the crowded transport, the watery grave, and the fatal scaffold! How many hearts has it broken! How many despairing suicides can it number! How many hearths has it desolated! What wide-spread misery and wretchedness has it caused! More, and general, and lasting anguish has it occasioned than any other vice, that monster evil, drunkenness, alone excepted! The agony with which it ha...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151278494
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 58
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151278491
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 122 gr


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