Public Advertiser (1781) [ Practices ]
… Spe[ech] [page 2] were given us to communicate our Ideas, and our Discoveries in Knowledge. But this Faculty is by the Gamester restricted only to the Purpose of communicating how a Trick was lost, or how it might have been won: The Anxiety … the Person to venture the Fate of a second: A Defeat at Gaming animates instead of discouraging; and a true Gamester is refolved to lose all, if he has only lost a Part. I would not take upon me to determine how much the learned …
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