Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… Hints for a Reform, 15). 22 . Hints for a reform, particularly in the gambling clubs, By a MP (London, 1784), p. 14. The literature of the time brings into focus the different attitudes to gambling. Gambling could be seen as the prerogative … Moore’s tragedy The Gamester (1753) warns against the perils to which gaming can lead. The representation of gaming in literature contributed to the debates surrounding such practice, perhaps even influenced them. Gambling could also be a … ‘hustled’ or shaken together in a cap before being tossed. (OED) 28 . Lord Bellew v Gardiner, 1703, TNA, C 6/377/61. Literature also echoes the concern for gambling debts: Wickham, in Pride and Prejudice is heavily in debt; Willoughby, in …
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