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Life of Johnson (1776) [ People / Practices ]
… party - Society; and if it be considered as a vow-God : and, therefore, it cannot be dissolved by their consent alone. Laws are not made for particular cases, but for men in general. A woman may be unhappy with her husband; but she cannot …
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… its founders and membership being noble and gentlemen cricketers. Above all it became the institution which reviewed the laws of the game; it is now the guardian of these laws. This, of course, as is the case with all sports, did not prevent games being played around the country with … grew throughout England being recorded, according to Bowen, in thirty-one counties by the end of the century. The first Laws were drawn in 1744, and later revised in 1755 at the Star and Garter, in 1774, and in 1786. Some of these revisions …
Colonies | Gambling | Gaming | Horseracing | Rules | Sports
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… and elite gaming particularly, while the Victorian gaming act of 1845 recognised games of skill as legal and outlawed games of chance when played either in public or private for money. The 1664 Act formed a model for subsequent … 1 . Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary defines gaming as “to play wantonly and extravagantly for money.” Other laws aimed, with little success, at suppressing the games of faro , basset or hazard (1739) or at preventing taverns and … indulged in gambling behind closed doors. In 1782, a bill was aimed more directly at the game of EO (but never became law). The paradox of gambling lies in the fact that it defined a form of sociability but was denounced as anti-social. …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… thought that this colour was used to imitate billards tables, which themselves were tainted green as a reminder of the lawns on which the game was originally played. 4 . Abraham De Moivre, Faro and Rouge et Noir (London: Printed for J. … associated with gaming. In an anonymous 1761 treatise on gaming the author concludes that: ‘Gaming’s a fiend with Harpy Claws and Eyes, Of Paper Substance, but prodigious Size: Which like Eve’s Serpent wears seducing Smiles, And when it … hinted at in literary works of the time. The green baize – which, as we have seen, was initially designed to evoke the lawn on which billiards was played – led Alexander Pope to liken it to a green battlefield during the game of Ombre …
Aristocracy | Domesticity | Furniture | Gambling | Gaming | Playing
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