Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The perniciousness of gaming was so well understood by the grand impostor, Mahomet, that he thought necessary to prohibit expressly in the Alcoran, not as a thing naturally evil; but only morally so, as it is a step to the greatest vice. For whilst we captivate ourselves to chance, we lose our authority over our passions, being excited to immoderate desire, excessive hope, joy and grief; we stand or fall at the uncertain cast of the dice, or to the turning up of a card ; we are slaves to the feeblest wisher, which, if we succeed not, we grow furious, profligate and impious ; banishing all prudence, temperance and justice, we become impudent, and fit for the blackest crimes.- Hence the cheats the quarrels the oaths and blasphemies among men; and among women, the neglect of household affairs; the unlimited freedoms, the indecent passion ; and lastly, the known inlet to lewdness, when, after an ill run, the fair one must answer the defects of the purse-If Christians have not humility enough to conform to the rule of life laid down in Holy Writ, let them at least have pride enough to be shamed out of this detestable vice by the example of Pagans and Mahometans : but if we were at present as scrupulous as Cobillon was, it would be a difficult matter to negotiate any treaty for want of Ambassadors.