Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… 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 Mots-clés Clubs Duelling Gaming Gentleman Horseracing Suicide From the Restoration to … exclusive gambling clubs or elite assemblies at private residences to popular city taverns or coffeehouses where various social classes mingled and indulged in fashionable games, thus fostering new forms of sociable interactions. Treatises … order and virtue. The gambling clubs of London were accused of all the evils of society and even of ruining social relations: 'there is now no society.' 22 The author of a pamphlet, a member of Parliament, advocated the creation of an …
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