The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically. In a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations. / By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co.

  • Britton, John, 1771-1857.
Date:
1807
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Credit: The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically. In a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations. / By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Can draw by placid smiles.a giddy train, Yo learn that, routs, and cards are not in vain, But managed well, can ladies’ smiles repay, By taking money—in a genteel way.” AGE OF FRIVOLITY. Gamester and cheat were synonimous terms in the times of Shakespeare and Jonson: and they have hardly lost any thing of their double signification in the present day. But there is no pursuit or amusement, how- ever delightful or instructive, that is not some- _ dimes attended with disadvantage and disaster. Even the inoffensive, harmless practice of gaming is occasionally followed by serious consequences, as we shall endeavour to prove, — by a very concise account of a young man who fell a public victim to this fascinating amuse- ment. The ill-fated H—y W———n was a native of Ireland, and adds one to the dark catalogue of those, whom an inordinate love of gaming brought to an untimely grave! He was of a most respectable family, and had received a good education: when very young he was sent to London, and placed *