 | Charities - 1819 - 384 pages
...the purpose of drawing a revenue from their ruin ; it is an anomalous proceeding by law to declare gambling infamous, to hunt out petty gamblers in their...captivating devices which ingenuity, uncontrolled by moral rectitude, can invent." Dr. Colquhoun being asked to state generally the causes of that increase of... | |
 | William Roscoe - Criminal law - 1819 - 342 pages
...for the purpose of drawing a revenue from their ruin. It is an anomalous proceeding by law to declare gambling infamous, to hunt out petty gamblers in their...captivating devices which ingenuity, uncontrolled by moral rectitude, can invent" " There are two sorts of corruption," says Montesquieu, " the one when the people... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1819 - 476 pages
...the purpose of drawing a revenue from their ruin ; it is an anomalous proceeding by law to declare gambling infamous, to hunt out petty gamblers in their...it by the most captivating devices which ingenuity, uncontrouled by moral rectitude, can invent.' [Report, p. 90.] We cannot forbear to quote another passage... | |
 | Henry Sampson - Advertising - 1874 - 716 pages
...for the purpose of drawing a revenue from their ruin. It is an anomalous proceeding by law to declare gambling infamous ; to hunt out petty gamblers in...set up the giant gambling of the State Lottery, and encourage persons to resort to it by the most captivating devices which ingenuity uncontrolled by moral... | |
 | Henry Sampson - Advertising - 1874 - 670 pages
...for the purpose of drawing a revenue from their ruin. It is an anomalous proceeding by law to declare gambling infamous ; to hunt out petty gamblers in...set up the giant gambling of the State Lottery, and encourage persons to resort to it by the most captivating devices which ingenuity uncontrolled by moral... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - England - 1898 - 282 pages
...the purpose of drawing a, revenue from their ruin. It is an anomalous, proceeding by law to declare gambling infamous ; to hunt out petty gamblers in...set up the giant gambling of the State Lottery and encourage persons to resort to it by the most captivating devices which ingenuity uncontrolled by moral... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - England - 1898 - 526 pages
...for the purpose of drawing a revenue from their ruin. It is an anomalous proceeding by law to declare gambling infamous ; to hunt out petty gamblers in...set up the giant gambling of the State Lottery and encourage persons to resort to it by the most captivating devices which ingenuity uncontrolled by moral... | |
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It is a scandal to the government, thus to excite people to practise the vice of gaming, for the purpose of drawing a revenue from their ruin ; it is an anomalous proceeding by law to declare gambling infamous, to hunt out petty gamblers in their recesses... 