 | Hunting - 1801 - 376 pages
...taken in any light, it is an offence of the most alarming nature; tending, by necessary сойsequence, to promote public idleness, theft and debauchery,...class ; and, among persons of a superior rank, it bath frequently been attended with the sudden ruin and desolation of an» cient and opulent families,... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...LAW. — GAMING. MR. EDITOR. SIR, — " Gaming," says Mr. Justice Blackstone, " taken in any light, is an offence of the most alarming nature ; tending...to promote public idleness, theft, and debauchery, amongst those of a lower class ; and among persons of a superior rank, it hath frequently been attended... | |
 | Seymour Harcourt - 1820 - 236 pages
...may be saved a little longer. But, taken in any light, it is an offence of the most alarming natnre ; tending, by necessary consequence, to promote public...been attended with the sudden ruin and desolation of many ancient and opulent families; an abandoned prostitution of every principle of honour and virtue,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...ruin shall at present fall, tbat the rest may be saved a little longer. But taken in any light, it is an offence of the most alarming nature, tending...ruin and desolation of ancient and opulent families, and abandoned prostitution of every principle of honour and virtue, and too often hath ended in self-murder.... | |
 | Charles Dunne - Gambling - 1823 - 352 pages
...any light, this is an offence of the most alarming nature, tending, by necessary consequence, to t promote public idleness, theft, and debauchery among...sudden ruin and desolation of ancient and opulent families,—abandoned prostitution of every principle of honour and virtue, and too often hath ended... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer. But, taken in any light, it is an offence of the most alarming nature ; tending...been attended with the sudden ruin and desolation of antient and opulent families, an abandoned prostitution of every principle of honour and virtue, and... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer. But, taken in any light, it is an offence of the most alarming nature ; tending...of a lower class ; and, among persons of a superior ra-ik, it hath frequently been attended with the sudden ruin and desolation of antient and opulent... | |
 | Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 522 pages
...over fur trial, upon this form of the complaint. GAMING AND GAMING HOUSES. GAMING, taken in any light, is an offence of the most alarming nature, tending, by necessary consequence, to promote idleness, theft, and debauchery, among the lower class. In the higher ranks of society, it has frequently... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...lending, by necessary consequence, to piomote public idleness, theft, and debauchery, among I hose of a lower class; and, among persons of a superior rank, it has frequently been attended with the sudden ruin and desolation of ancient and opulent families, and... | |
 | Stephen Davies - 1838 - 260 pages
...public house, are taken into the account, it will be found very generally to prevail ; though " it is an offence of the most alarming nature, tending,...class ; and, among persons of a superior rank, it * The Great Metropolis, vol. ip 209. hath frequently been attended with the sudden ruin and desolation... | |
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But, taken in any light, it is an offence of the most alarming nature ; tending by necessary consequence to promote public idleness, theft, and debauchery among those of a lower class ; and, among persons of a superior rank, it hath frequently been attended... 
