[326] "Daniel Souter, Palamed. lib. ii, c. 6."
[327] Réflexions sur ce que l'on appelle Bonheur et Malheur en matière de Loteries, par M. le Clerc, ch. viii, p. 97.
[328] La Placette, Des Jeux de Hasard, ch. ii, p. 202.
[329] J. B. Thiers, in his Traité des Jeux et des Divertissemens, p. 5, thus refers to the same anecdote: "Saint Ignace de Loiola joüa un jour au billard avec un gentil-homme qui l'avoit invité d'y jouer, et s'il en faut croire l'éloquent Jésuite Maphée, il le gagna miraculeusement, quoiqu'il ne sçût pas le jeu. Cum nihil minus calleret Ignatius, divinitus factum est ut in singulos omnino trajectus victor eraderet."
[330] "Omnis autem Actio vacare debet temeritate et negligentia: nee vero agere quidquam, cujus non possit causam probabilem reddere."—Cicero de Offic. lib. i. See also Marc. Antonin. lib. viii, cap. 2, and lib. x, cap. 37, together with Gataker's observations.—On this point the remark of Seneca deserves quotation: "Hac [Ratione] duce, per totam vitam eundum est. Minima Maximaque ex hujus consilio gerenda sunt."—De Benefic. lib. ii, cap. 18.
[331] Thiers, in his Traité des Jeux et des Divertissemens, distinguishes games in the same manner; but Barbeyrac observes that he is wrong in classing all games of cards with games of pure chance.
[332] "The low and profligate company which a gentleman of rank and education will frequently submit to keep, rather than lose his beloved Hazard, is such that, if he had been required to admit them simply on the ground of companions, he would certainly have looked upon it as an insufferable degradation."—A Dissertation on the pernicious effects of Gaming, published, by appointment, as having gained a Prize (June 1783) in the University of Cambridge. By Richard Hey, LL.D., Cambridge, 1784, p. 31.
[333] "I know a man who cheats," said a young gentleman to Sheridan; "I do not like to expose him; what shall I do?" "Back him," was the reply.
[334] "Hook's clever epitaph on a fashionable gambler then recently deceased."—The Dowagers; or, the New School for Scandal, by Mrs. Gore. 1843.
[335] "Question on Gaming, Whether or no the making and providing such instruments, which usually minister to it, is by interpretation such an aid to the sin, as to involve us in the guilt?" This treatise is printed in a small work entitled 'The Life of Bishop Taylor, and the Purest Spirit of his Writings extracted and exhibited by John Whealdon, A.M.' 8vo, 1789.