A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson
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INTRODUCTION PREFATORY ARRANGEMENTS AND REMARKS MORAL EDUCATION. CHAPTER I. _Amusements distinguishable into useful and hurtful--the latter specified and forbidden_. CHAPTER II. SECT. I.--_Games of chance forbidden--history of the origin of some of these_. SECT. II.--_Forbidden as below the dignity of the intellect of man, and of his christian character_. SECT. III.--_As producing an excitement of the passions, unfavourable to religious impressions--historical anecdotes of this excitement_. SECT. IV.--_As tending to produce, by the introduction of habits of gaming, an alteration in the moral character_. |
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