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assertWfcat fras already appeared in tfie letter in question , *! *< Thgrt the ver ^ essence of the tem p tation to sit at card s is the hope itid -wish of gain /* - This writer talks of well bred persons ** as beiAg privileged to play cards . But who is to be judge in this ca £ e ? Dd not those who frequent the gaming-houses in Westminster ^ in Bath , and elsewhere , consider themselves as not only well bred , but tli& best bred men in * the kingdom !! In a moment of thought , disen * gaged from the card table , this writer admits what is sufficient to deter any wise and sober man from this game at hazard * u I would not , ' ' saith he , " be understood by anything I have written in this letter tp stand forward as the unqualified champion of all gatnes at hazard . Many of them are dangerous in any degree ; all > vhfa
they are carried to excess . " Well then there is danger in all fhqse games ! Let us remember the prayer that is sometimes in the mouth of the card player , " Lead us not into temptation . '' This writer may view the scriptures lightly and imperfectly as a rule of moral discipline , and substitute if he please the conduct of the well bred in the plaice of them ; however it is to be hoped that he will not find mtfriy well educated Christians of his opinion . I have not seen the s ^ rmott of Mr . Burder , nor the Layman ' s answer to it , nor can I be very curious about seeing the latter , unless it contain arguments much more to the purpose than those which have been selected Prom it by u No Bigot / ' When this gentleman will give hinrvself the trouble of answering the severab inconveniences which have been enumerated in the Letter to a Dissenting minister and which gene *
rally attend card playing , it will be time enough to bring forward other considerations against the practice . The mart who ventures to put his footpn the utmost limits of lawfulness to gratify his pa , s - sion will soon pass that line in pursuit of his favourite indulgence * The man who covets his neighbour ' s guinea will soon thirst after his mite . If the hope of gain is not the gratification of playing tli c * game , why risk the smallest sum ? Jan . 10 , 1807 .
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BEPLY TO A PLAIN CHRISTIAN , ON THE WRITINGS ARD CHARACTER OF THE LATE REV . E , EVANSON . "To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . SlRj > . ' Having noticed in your Monthly Repository * two or three very illiberal attacks on the writings and . sentiments of the late worthy Mr . Evanson , by one who styles himself " A Plain Christian , " it is hoped that a few words in reply to such unmerited abuse , will not be denied a place in the same publication . The " Plain Christian" thinks proper to load with invective a writer of eminence , a man of erudition and great abilities , which have been principally exercised in a free mves-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/16/
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