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ARD-playing is now the contant amuement, I may ay employment, of young and old, in genteel life. After all the fatigue of the toilet, blooming girls are et down to card-tables, and the mot unpleaing paions called forth. Avarice does not wait for grey hairs and wrinkles, but marks a countenance where the loves and graces ought to revel. The hours that hould be pent in improving the mind, or in innocent mirth, are thus thrown away; and if the take is not coniderable enough to roue the paions, lot in inipidity, and a habit quired