Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… Pamphlets increasingly denounced gambling as a vice. The paradox of gambling lies in the fact that it defined a form of sociability but was denounced as anti-social. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Clubs Duelling Gaming Gentleman … 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. 2 . 12 Geo IIc28 et 18 Geo IIc34. Gambling and the Social worlds of … the direct authority of the monarch, he had his own gaming house. Homosociality provided an ideal environment for male sociability to be tested through gambling practices. Private and exclusive gentlemen’s clubs like White’s and Brooks’s …
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