"at a venture" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "For when the Mind is once re-pleniſh’d with ſound and good Principles, not taken up at a Venture, but upon the most mature Deliberation, what can we reaſonably expect, but that it ſhould exert it ſelf in a ſuitable Manner upon all proper Occaſions.",
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          "ref": "1780, William Cowper, letter, 5 June",
          "text": "For my own part, I never in my life began a letter more at a venture than the present."
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          "ref": "1911, Jules Verne, translated by Charles F. Horne, Round the World in Eighty Days",
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        "(dated) at random, without application of due thought, haphazardly or recklessly"
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