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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. 1822 Excerpt: ...he loses. The loss and the guilt oppress him. He drinks, to revive his spirits. His spirits revived, he stakes to retrieve his fortune.. Again he is unsuccessful, and again his spirits flag, and again the inebriating cup revives them. Erehe is aware of it, be has become a drunkard; he has become a bankrupt. Resource fails him. His fortune is gone; his character is gone; his ten derness of conscience is gone.--God has withdrawn his spirit from him. The demon of despair takes possession of his bosom; reason deserts him. he becomes a maniac; the pistol or the poigriard close the scene, and with a shriek he plunges, unwept, and forgotten, into hell. But there are other lights in which this subject should be viewed. The proper aliment of the body is ascertained by its effects. Whatever is nutricious is selected; whatever is poisonous, avoided. Let a man of common prudence, perceive the deleterious effects of any fruit, however fair to the eye; however sweet to the'tasle--let him perceive these effects, in the haggard countenances and swollen limbs of those who have been partaking of it, and though he may not be able to discover wherein its viciousness consists, he admits that it is vicious, and shrinks from the participation of a repast in which some secret poison lurks, that proves fatal to many and injurious to most who hitherto have tasted it. Why should not the same circumspection be used with respect to the aliment of the mind? It should undoubtedly. But gaming presents even a stronger case than the one we have supposed. For not only the fact but the reason of it is obvioils. So that we may repeat what has been already said of games Of hazard, that they impart no expansion or vigour to the mind, and that their influence on the affections, and passions, and ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231036518
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231036516
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 91 gr


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