The British Essayists;: ConnoisseurJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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... Gaming • • 3. The Ocean of Ink , a Dream 4. Account of a new Order of Females , called Demi - Reps • 5. Letter from a Physician , with the Account of a Plague newly broke out in London . Different Appearances and Effects of it on a ...
... Gaming • • 3. The Ocean of Ink , a Dream 4. Account of a new Order of Females , called Demi - Reps • 5. Letter from a Physician , with the Account of a Plague newly broke out in London . Different Appearances and Effects of it on a ...
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... Gaming . 31. Letter , on Duelling . Mr. Town an Advo- cate for it . Proposal for making Duels a Public Diversion Form of a Challenge , with the Answer , from two Duellists . 32. Letter , against Snuff - taking . This Custom No ...
... Gaming . 31. Letter , on Duelling . Mr. Town an Advo- cate for it . Proposal for making Duels a Public Diversion Form of a Challenge , with the Answer , from two Duellists . 32. Letter , against Snuff - taking . This Custom No ...
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... a knowing one . So write me a few papers in defence of cards , dice , races , and gaming in general ; and I will admit you upon the square , introduce you at If you White's , set you upon the turf the N ° 2 . 11 THE CONNOISSEUR .
... a knowing one . So write me a few papers in defence of cards , dice , races , and gaming in general ; and I will admit you upon the square , introduce you at If you White's , set you upon the turf the N ° 2 . 11 THE CONNOISSEUR .
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... gaming is now become rather the business than amusement of our persons of quality : 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 ...
... gaming is now become rather the business than amusement of our persons of quality : 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 ...
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... gaming dialect is called pitting one man against another ; that is , in plain English , wagering which of the two will live longest . In this manner , people of the most opposite characters make up the subject of a bet . A player ...
... gaming dialect is called pitting one man against another ; that is , in plain English , wagering which of the two will live longest . In this manner , people of the most opposite characters make up the subject of a bet . A player ...
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11 ページ - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; — and what's his reason? I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
107 ページ - That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of...
53 ページ - They would not then, if they were trusted with fair and hopeful armies, suffer them for want of just and wise discipline to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft...
53 ページ - ... colonels of twenty men in a company, to quaff out, or convey into secret hoards, the wages of a delusive list, and a miserable remnant; yet in the...
5 ページ - This coflee-house is every night crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bon mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature is critically examined, and the merit of every production of the press, or performance at the theatres, weighed and determined.
48 ページ - I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter ; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or not.
4 ページ - They aim at the air and mien of the drawing-room ; but the holiday smartness of a 'prentice, heightened with some additional touches of the rake or coxcomb, betrays itself in every thing they do. The Temple, however, is stocked with its peculiar beaux, wits, poets, critics, and every character in the gay world; and it is a thousand pities that so pretty a society should be disgraced with a few dull fellows, who can submit to puzzle themselves with cases and reports, and have not taste enough to follow...
48 ページ - I believe that man is a beast; that the soul is the body, and that the body is the soul; and that after death there is neither body nor soul.
81 ページ - And he for it would pay Whatsoever he would demand of him, And pledges he should have. ' No,' (quoth the Jew with Hearing lookes) ' Sir, aske what you will have.
3 ページ - ... the booksellers. The conversation here naturally turns upon the newest publications ; but their criticisms are somewhat singular. When they say a good book, they do not mean to praise the style or sentiment, but the quick and extensive sale of it. That book is best which sells most; and if the demand for Quarles should be greater than for Pope, he would have the highest place on the rubric-post.