An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling: Designed Especially as a Warning to the Youthful and Inexperienced Against the Evils of that Odious and Destructive ViseRedding, 1845 - 324 pages |
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... live in an age of moral reform , yet how little is being done either by legis- lative enactments , voluntary associations , or otherwise , to check this mighty evil , which is at once the parent of innumerable other vices of the most ...
... live in an age of moral reform , yet how little is being done either by legis- lative enactments , voluntary associations , or otherwise , to check this mighty evil , which is at once the parent of innumerable other vices of the most ...
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... lives are spent in defrauding and cheating their fellow - men , by artifices so base , so vile , that every honest mind shudders to contemplate them ? I will now proceed to give an account of such games as are most generally practised ...
... lives are spent in defrauding and cheating their fellow - men , by artifices so base , so vile , that every honest mind shudders to contemplate them ? I will now proceed to give an account of such games as are most generally practised ...
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... live on the riches he had accumulated ; and his most intimate friends apparently , could not tell whence they came . He very frequently , in his younger days , had made trips to the south with slaves for that market , and always re ...
... live on the riches he had accumulated ; and his most intimate friends apparently , could not tell whence they came . He very frequently , in his younger days , had made trips to the south with slaves for that market , and always re ...
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... live on without engaging in any kind of speculation , and that he would act a more consistent and dutiful part by staying at home and taking care of his parents in their old days . Soon after this he visited Mr. T. , and told him that ...
... live on without engaging in any kind of speculation , and that he would act a more consistent and dutiful part by staying at home and taking care of his parents in their old days . Soon after this he visited Mr. T. , and told him that ...
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... live ; and , besides , I will be with you , and you know that I will see that no person harms you . And then , in addition to the pleasure the trip will afford , you will , I have no doubt , make several thousand dollars , which will ...
... live ; and , besides , I will be with you , and you know that I will see that no person harms you . And then , in addition to the pleasure the trip will afford , you will , I have no doubt , make several thousand dollars , which will ...
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Popular passages
Page 303 - He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Page 315 - He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Page 179 - ... agree, the extra cards may be drawn by the dealer from his opponent's hand: and the same if the dealer gives himself too many cards. But, in either case, if a single card has been played, there must be a new deal. 3. No person can beg more than once in a hand, unless both parties agree.
Page 311 - ... of slighted, abused affection with the tears of starved and shivering childhood, — piercing her ear at once with the moans for bread and the curses of disappointed brutality. Once more, and there should be a GRAVE ! — a green and lowly grave — where the faithful heart that loved him to the last should rest from all its pangs, and the child that he had slighted should sleep as cold and still as the bosom that once nourished it; a grave! where even the wide and distant heaven should be kinder...
Page 313 - A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Page 16 - Solomon refers to the power of hnltit when he says, " train up a child in the way in which he should go ; and when he is old he will not depart from it ;" a power which cannot be employed too early in the aid of virtue and religion.
Page 112 - Bending ; is used when a punter, having lost half his stake by a doublet, bends a card in the middle, and setting it up with the points and foot towards the dealer, signifies thereby a desire either of recovering the moiety, or of losing all. Pont; a Bridge.
Page 148 - The young man, who had gone to bed, got up, and felt a strong propensity to win all. He began betting on the game again, and in a short time lost the whole of his nine hundred dollars trying to win a button : for that was all he could have won, as the man had no money at first, but what he had won from the young man. The young man was obliged to make his way home, without his health being benefited, and without his money. (i) THE RUINED MERCHANT. — A writer in the
Page 278 - Drawing of the Lottery. The following is a copy of a handbill issued by the proprietors of the lottery immediately after a drawing, for the information of ticket-holders, and all others interested : — DRAWING OF THE LOTTERY. The following are the numbers which were this day drawn from the seventy-eight placed in the wheel, viz. : — 1 2 3 4...
Page 147 - ... against the button, and the banker won. He tried again and again, until he lost some three or four dollars, to win the button, and then went to bed. The banker had now several persons betting small bets on the game, and had won some eight or ten dollars, and there was quite a noise and bustle going on. The young man who had quit and gone to bed, got up, and felt a strong propensity to win all.