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… Rules to Be Observed on All Battles of the Stage, 1743. Image C.R. Ryley, 'Daniel Mendoza & Richard Humphreys', United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, 2016.184.160, 1790 Image James Gillray, 'Dan beating the Phillistines', … attack against the ‘system of effeminacy’ stimulated by Pitt’s social and economic policies. According to him, the state control of the lower orders was carried out with policies meant to hinder sociable practices through ‘the …
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… of Parliament and politicians were spending their time gambling at the races rather than attending to the matters of state. At the end of the century, The Jockey Club , or A Sketch of the Manners of the Age (1792) by Charles Piggott …
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