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BG.746.010
9 Sep 1746:11,12 (1278)
From the New-York Evening Post, August, 18. 1746. Mr.
DeForrest. . . Anonymous.
I had the good luck to be one in the crouded congregations
that attended the discourses of the Rev. Mr. W----d. . .
[diatribe on playing cards; 5th para. on 12:]
Nothing is to be seen but play, and the preparation for
it; persons of all characters and denominations sit down to
cards, and many agree in this particular, who agree in
nothing else.--- Nor is one day in seven exempted from this
offence against taste and good manners; On the Sabbath, as
well as other days, you have the pleasure of seeing tables
with cards, surrounded with persons of figure, enough to
give a sanction to the practice, to barbers and fidlers, and
the whole Cheiv's of the vulgar. . . [3 more paras]
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