Man, a Paper for Ennobling the Species [By P. Shaw]. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1755 Excerpt: ...sight must necessarily think. If the great and impending danger of ruining your heirs, and the tears arid entreaties of your tender wife, cannot touch your heart; at least have some compassion for yourself, and that best part of you, your soul, which runs the greatest of all hazards. You have sometimes had narrow escapes with life, from falls and accidents; you have also been in great d.: nger by sickness: do not run again the fame risks of withdrawing yourself from your own flesh and blood; from the only natural and most immediate dependants you have to provide for in the world. Do not deprive them of the single/upport upon which they might so justly rely. But if you will thus forget your wife, your own health and life, your honour, and your children; yet forget not that you have an immortal foul. Hll-profess Christianity; -ie-know thatttclivsay at best, are short; and very uncertain; and that the promises and expectations of an hereafter are well grounded. If your soul should be lost, you ate doubly to be lamented; for it will not be lost for the commission of such fins as procure a man any degree of fame, il'utation, or respe& in. this world. You would be. loft, not as a crafty, treacherous, aggrandising statesman; riot 'as a murdering conqueror; but as a wretched gamester, and a drinking debauchee; vices that render a man contemptible, mean, and despicable in the eyes of others. You play a deep and foolish stake with your own salvation; arid are already laughed at and despised "by all the rational and virtuous part of mankind. The company you herd with, whose faculties of thinking rife no higher than to the mattadores, hazard, whisk, or chess; and who only think themselves honourable, because they would not rob upon the high-way, and unders...