Gordon, George William:

$450 · Offered by William Reese Company

A LECTURE BEFORE THE BOSTON YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETY, ON THE SUBJECT OF LOTTERIES. DELIVERED MARCH 12, 1833. A publication by the Temperance Press on the evils of the lottery. It includes a history of lotteries, and the text of the Massachusetts Act for the Suppression of Lotteries. He writes: "There are no human minds sufficiently firm to be trusted in the hands of chance. Adventurous persons who throw themselves by design into the arms of fortune, may be said to quit voluntarily the power of governing themselves."

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