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XI. page 56
He subsequently made appearance, in order to retain his living;
but in 1828 he lost it, a successor being appointed by his
college. He then went to the United States of America; what he
did there is not on record; but he subsequently returned to
Europe, went to Paris, took up his abode in the Palais Royal,
and--devoted his talents to the mysteries of the gaming table, by
which he was so successful that in the course of a year or two he
won L25,000!
Oddly enough, one of his `maxims' in his Lacon runs as follows:
`The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly
ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and, by the act of
suicide, renounces earth, to forfeit heaven.'
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