Henry Wallace: Or The Victim of Lottery Gambling: A Moral Tale

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Wilson & Swain, 1832 - 108 pages
 

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Page iii - Brethren, the days of want and despondency ; and " all things whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.
Page 32 - The truih of this position is too evident to need illustration. Another constituent of gaming is, the placing of property at the disposition of hazard. And in no case, actual or supposed, can it be more completely subjected to the control of chance, than in the lottery wheel. It matters not whether all the parties interested in the hazard, are actively engaged in bringing about the result. Are the gamesters upon the turf, less interested for not riding their own horses ? Every ticket-holder is a...
Page iv - With all her bravery on," fit symbol of that glorious empire whose arm reaches forth to the remotest regions of the globe, wherever heaves the billow, wherever commerce courts, or danger presumes ; whose " march is o'er the mountain wave," whose " home is on the deep." Though the black night be over the waste of waters, the ship is wakeful still. She speaks, she answers, with bright and glancing lights, and, through the day, with many-coloured flags, now soaring to the peak, and fluttering there...
Page 34 - ... of gaming, that do not apply with aggravated force, to what I denominate lottery gambling. You mention idleness as a concomitant of gaming. What has a greater tendency to remit exertions, than the expectation of independence without it?
Page 35 - ... vice, as the one which lottery brokers play for a living. Be not disturbed; I bring no ' railing accusation' against the players, however much justice might inculpate them. My business is with the dishonest principle which is inseparably interwoven with the system. You pertinently annex covetousness, avarice, and disregard to the rights of others, to the catalogue of delinquencies.
Page 106 - Babel of moral corruption shall be prostrate, and the language of its builders > utterly confounded.

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