Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… J. Dodsley, 1774), Letter 87 (27 March 1747), vol.1, p. 212. 13 . Charles Gildon, The Golden Spy (London: J. Woodward, J. Morphew, 1709), p. 14. Appearances being one of the keys to social prestige, the performance associated with … 53. They began by pulling off their embroidered clothes, and put on frieze great-coats, or turned their coats inside outwards for luck. They put on pieces of leather such as worn by footmen when they clean knives, to save their lace ruffles; … of gamblers. The necessity of reforming gamblers appears more clearly from the middle of the eighteenth century. Edward Moore’s tragedy The Gamester (1753) warns against the perils to which gaming can lead. The representation of gaming …
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