The Connoisseur 15 (1754) [ Practices ]
… and that they are more concerned about the transactions of The two clubs at White's than the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament. Thus it happens that estates are now almost as frequently made over by whiff and hazard as by deeds … absurd to pretend to gather any such intelligence from White's ; as to send to Batson's for a lawyer, or to the Roll's Coffee-house for a man-midwife. The gentlemen who now frequent this place profess a kind of universal Scepticism; and as they …
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