. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . itants, is direct gaming. It is not impossible for cunning men to make such plausible schemes,as may draw those who are less skilful into their own and the public surely there is no man of sense and honesty but must see and own,whether he understands the game or not, that it is an evident folly forany people, instead of prosecuting the old lionest methods of industry andfrugality, to sit down to a public gaming-table and play off their moneyone to another. The more methods t
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . itants, is direct gaming. It is not impossible for cunning men to make such plausible schemes,as may draw those who are less skilful into their own and the public surely there is no man of sense and honesty but must see and own,whether he understands the game or not, that it is an evident folly forany people, instead of prosecuting the old lionest methods of industry andfrugality, to sit down to a public gaming-table and play off their moneyone to another. The more methods there are in a state for acquiring riclies withoutindustry or merit, the less there will bo of either in that atace: this is aeevident as the ruin that attends it. Besides, when money is shifted fromhand to hand in such a blind fortuitous manner, that some men shall fromnothing acquire in an instant viust estates, without the least descit; whileothers are as suddenly stripped | plentiful r<ii-(iiii«s, and l<ft on llic jiarish**f their own avarice and crcduHty, what can bo hoped Ior on the one. a type of grandeur, strength and maje?*-^ A LIONS HEAD. 181 hand but abandoned luxury and wantonness, or on the other but extrememadness and despair! In short, all projects for growing rich by sudden and extraordinarymethods, as they operate violently on the passions of men, and encouragethem to despise the slow moderate gains that are to be made by an honestIndustry, must be ruinous to the public, and even the winners themseivef;will at length be involved in the public ruin. . God grant the time be not near when men shall say, This island waaonce inhabited by a religious, brave, sincere people, of plain, uncorruptmanners, respecting inbred worth rather than titles and appearances,assertors of liberty, lovers of their country, jealous of tl;eir own rights,and unwilling to infringe the rights of others; improvers of learning anduseful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other mens liv
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