Three dissertations ; on the pernicious effects of gaming, on duelling, and on suicide / First pub. in 1783, 1784, 1785, by appointment; as having gained, in the University of Cambridge, the three prizes of an anonymos donor. By Richard Hey. Rev. and cor., in 1811, by the author.

  • Hey, Richard, 1745-1835.
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1812
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Credit: Three dissertations ; on the pernicious effects of gaming, on duelling, and on suicide / First pub. in 1783, 1784, 1785, by appointment; as having gained, in the University of Cambridge, the three prizes of an anonymos donor. By Richard Hey. Rev. and cor., in 1811, by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    degree of subjection, were determined, not from the reasons of things, or the laws of particular nations, but from the precedents and precepts contained in the Bible ; a book never intended for such pur- poses, and indeed much injured by the artifice ** and violence with which it has been pressed into '^ a foreign service. Probably much harm has been done, to the joint cause of Religion and Virtue, by applying to specific purposes (howsoever good) such words of Scripture as can scarcely be so applied, even by the most religious, with a perfect concurrence of their calm judgment. Whereas, if, on examining any rule of action, I can evince to the candid inquirer that it would be beneficial or pernicious to mankind, on a general adoption of it; can any man, looking to the one God and* Father of all with due sentiments of piety and veneration, doubt that such rule of action (unless Revelation say otherwise) is accordingly right or wrong, — conformable or opposite to the will of that almighty and beneficent Being ? And, is this conclusion either more or less just, because, whether from judgment or negligence, I omit to subjoin the express mention of a basis and sanction common to all acts and rules of Duty; namely, the Will of God ? But, were it allowed that such omission were from negligence or wrong judgment; * Eph. iv. 6.