A Lecture Before the Boston Young Men's Society: On the Subject of Lotteries. Delivered March 12, 1833Temperance Press, Ford & Damrell, 1833 - 79 |
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Strona 62 - ... he entertained, that if he could purchase a particular number in the ensuing lottery (which he was not then in a situation to accomplish) it would prove successful. His friend, after remonstrating with him on the impropriety of persevering in a practice that had...
Strona 45 - In truth, the foundation of the lottery is so radically vicious, that your Committee feel convinced that, under no system of regulations which can be devised, will it be possible for Parliament to adopt it as an efficient source of revenue, and at the same time divest it of all the evils and calamities of which it has hitherto proved so baneful a source.
Strona 79 - Such magistrate shall certify on the warrant, the fact ">• of his having let the defendant to bail, and shall deliver the same, together with the recognizance taken by him, to the officer or other person having charge of the prisoner, who shall deliver the same without unnecessary...
Strona 7 - ... of the state, by means of a lottery, which gives them the expectation of a premium above the customary interest of the country. For example : If a government is uncertain of obtaining, or cannot obtain, money at 7 per cent., it may, perhaps, effect its object by offering 4 per cent, for a loan, and dividing the remaining 3 per cent, among the lenders by means of a lottery ; for the hope of winning the great prizes in the lottery, in addition to the certainty of disposing of their capital at 4...
Strona 70 - ... proportions, and in cases, too, in which none have a right to acquire. 4. Lotteries, like other games of chance, are seductive and infatuating. Every new loss is an inducement to a new adventure ; and, filled with vain hopes of recovering what is lost, the unthinking victim is led on, from step to step, till he finds it impossible to regain his ground, and he gradually sinks into a miserable outcast ; or, by a bold and still more guilty effort, plunges at once into that gulf where he hopes protection...
Strona 78 - Upon the trial of an indictment for either of the offences mentioned in the preceding section, any ticket, or share of a ticket, or any other writing or thing before mentioned, which the defendant shall have sold, or offered for sale, or for which he shall have received any valuable consideration, shall be deemed to be false, spurious, or fictitious, unless such defendant shall prove the same to be true and genuine, and to have been duly issued by the authority of some legislature within the United...
Strona 5 - ... method the Italian merchants made use even in the middle ages, and of which we also find traces in Germany ; for as early as 1521, the council at Osnaburg is said to have established lotteries for merchandise. So also in France, under Francis I, similar lotteries for merchandise were permitted to the merchants, under the inspection of government, in consideration of certain duties. A money lottery was established at Florence, in 1530. In 1571, there appears to have been a public officer in Venice...
Strona 7 - ... of the country. For example : — If a government is uncertain of obtaining, or cannot obtain money at 7 per cent., it may, perhaps, effect its object by offering 4 per cent. for a loan, and dividing the remaining 3 per cent. among the lenders by means of a lottery ; for the hope of winning the great prizes in the lottery, in addition to the certainty of disposing of their capital at 4 per cent. has a stronger influence on many men, than the offer of 7 per cent. interest. In this way loans have...
Strona 12 - The principle upon which all gaming proceeds, and which is the root of all the misery and distress attendant upon it, is this : the transferring of property from one to another, without receiving an equivalent. The truth of this position is too evident to need illustration." " Another constituent of gaming is the placing of property at the disposition of hazard. And in no case actual or supposed, can it be more completely subjected to the control of chance, than in the lottery wheel. It matters not...
Strona 41 - A bill was brought in to suppress jthis lottery; and to oblige the managers of it to make restitution of the money they had received from the contributors. At the same time the house resolved, that John lord viscount Barrington had been notoriously guilty of promoting, abetting, and carrying on that fraudulent...