Assignment: FINAL EXAMINATION A

HUM16-T Q1 2014-2015
2014-09-09T03:31:15Z

Due: Sep 10, 2014 by 7am

To those puny objectors against cars, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other – that this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at cards; that cards are a temporary illusion; in truth, a mere drama; for we do but play at being mightily concerned, where a few idle shillings are at stake, yet, during the illusion, we are as mightily concerned as those whose stake is crowns and kingdoms. They are a sort of dream-fighting; much ado; great battling, and little blood shed; mighty means for disproportioned ends; quite as diverting, and a great deal more innocuous, than many of those more serious games of life, which men play, without esteeming them to be such –

With great deference to the old lay’s judgment on these matters, I think I have experienced some moments in my life, when playing at card for nothing has even been very agreeable. When I am in sickness, or not in the best spirits, I sometimes call for the cards, and play a game at piquet for love with my cousin Bridget – Bridget Elia.

To those puny objectors against cars, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other – that this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at cards; that cards are a temporary illusion; in truth, a mere drama; for we do but play at being mightily concerned, where a few idle shillings are at stake, yet, during the illusion, we are as mightily concerned as those whose stake is crowns and kingdoms. They are a sort of dream-fighting; much ado; great battling, and little blood shed; mighty means for disproportioned ends; quite as diverting, and a great deal more innocuous, than many of those more serious games of life, which men play, without esteeming them to be such –

With great deference to the old lay’s judgment on these matters, I think I have experienced some moments in my life, when playing at card for nothing has even been very agreeable. When I am in sickness, or not in the best spirits, I sometimes call for the cards, and play a game at piquet for love with my cousin Bridget – Bridget Elia.