Author: Francis Abell
Publisher: London Oxford University Press 1914.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815
Author: Francis Abell
Publisher: London Oxford University Press 1914.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher: London Oxford University Press 1914.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The History of Gambling in England
Author: John Ashton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Difference between Gaming and Gambling-Universality and Antiquity of Gambling-Isis and Osiris-Games and Dice of the Egyptians-China and India-The Jews-Among the Greeks and Romans-Among Mahometans-Early Dicing-Dicing in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries-In the 17th Century-Celebrated Gamblers-Bourchier-Swiss Anecdote-Dicing in the 18th Century. Gaming is derived from the Saxon word Gamen, meaning joy, pleasure, sports, or gaming-and is so interpreted by Bailey, in his Dictionary of 1736; whilst Johnson gives Gamble-to play extravagantly for money, and this distinction is to be borne in mind in the perusal of this book; although the older term was in use until the invention of the later-as we see in Cotton's Compleat Gamester (1674), in which he gives the following excellent definition of the word: -"Gaming is an enchanting witchery, gotten between Idleness and Avarice: an itching disease, that makes some scratch the head, whilst others, as if they were bitten by a Tarantula, are laughing themselves to death; or, lastly, it is a paralytical distemper, which, seizing the arm, the man cannot chuse but shake his elbow.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Difference between Gaming and Gambling-Universality and Antiquity of Gambling-Isis and Osiris-Games and Dice of the Egyptians-China and India-The Jews-Among the Greeks and Romans-Among Mahometans-Early Dicing-Dicing in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries-In the 17th Century-Celebrated Gamblers-Bourchier-Swiss Anecdote-Dicing in the 18th Century. Gaming is derived from the Saxon word Gamen, meaning joy, pleasure, sports, or gaming-and is so interpreted by Bailey, in his Dictionary of 1736; whilst Johnson gives Gamble-to play extravagantly for money, and this distinction is to be borne in mind in the perusal of this book; although the older term was in use until the invention of the later-as we see in Cotton's Compleat Gamester (1674), in which he gives the following excellent definition of the word: -"Gaming is an enchanting witchery, gotten between Idleness and Avarice: an itching disease, that makes some scratch the head, whilst others, as if they were bitten by a Tarantula, are laughing themselves to death; or, lastly, it is a paralytical distemper, which, seizing the arm, the man cannot chuse but shake his elbow.
The east neuk of Fife: its history and antiquities [&c.].
Author: Walter Wood
Publisher:
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Category : Fife (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Category : Fife (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Works of Lord Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Historical Tales and Legends of Ayrshire
Author: William Robertson
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Category : Ayrshire
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Category : Ayrshire
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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A Treatise Upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament
Author: Thomas Erskine May
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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The Lords of Cuningham
Author: William Robertson
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Story of Dartmoor Prison
Author: Basil Thomson
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Some Account of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes (Westminster) Past and Present
Author: John Diprose
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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The History of the Rifle Brigade (the Prince Consort's Own) Formerly the 95th
Author: Sir William Henry Cope
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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