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Is it not a misery to see a great Patrimony upon a Table, set ready to be adjudged who shall have it by so base and dull an Instrument as a bale of Dice? I read in the life of Augustus Caesar, when he recreated himself to deceive the tediousness of time with any Game, such moderate Stakes were set between him and Mecaenas; that the blowing up of a young Heir and all his Inheritance in one night must needs be reckoned by the Sages of good times for the exercise of a bad Calling. |
Is it not a misery to see a great Patrimony upon a Table, Set ready to be adjudged who shall have it by so base and dull an Instrument as a bale of Dice? I read in the life of Augustus Caesar, when he recreated himself to deceive the tediousness of time with any Game, such moderate Stakes were Set between him and Mecaenas; that the blowing up of a young Heir and all his Inheritance in one night must needs be reckoned by the Sages of good times for the exercise of a bad Calling. |
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