The History of Gambling in EnglandDifference 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. |
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... Insurance — Its origin and early Companies - Life Insurance — Early Companies - Curious story of Life Insurance 275 INTRODUCTORY Difference between Gaming and Gambling - Universality and Antiquity viii CONTENTS.
... Insurance — Its origin and early Companies - Life Insurance — Early Companies - Curious story of Life Insurance 275 INTRODUCTORY Difference between Gaming and Gambling - Universality and Antiquity viii CONTENTS.
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... insurance offices , or a large prize in a lottery , is not without its good effects ! It is , after all , baiting with sprats to catch salmon . We are happy to find that this officer has been so prudent as to retire on his good luck ...
... insurance offices , or a large prize in a lottery , is not without its good effects ! It is , after all , baiting with sprats to catch salmon . We are happy to find that this officer has been so prudent as to retire on his good luck ...
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... insurance ; and , never before , saw the prisoner . " The prisoner acknowledged he insured the ticket 79 times for one day . The mother of the person who was not apprehended , was next examined ; she proved an ac- quaintance between her ...
... insurance ; and , never before , saw the prisoner . " The prisoner acknowledged he insured the ticket 79 times for one day . The mother of the person who was not apprehended , was next examined ; she proved an ac- quaintance between her ...
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... Insurance , says : " The earliest English policy of marine insurance , which we have been able to discover , bears date 1613 , and though not a document issued actually by underwriters , but , to all appearances , a 1 Commissioners were ...
... Insurance , says : " The earliest English policy of marine insurance , which we have been able to discover , bears date 1613 , and though not a document issued actually by underwriters , but , to all appearances , a 1 Commissioners were ...
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... Insurance Office , and subscribe the new Politie , that it may be known who the Insurers are ; and if any one has found the old Politie , they are desired to bring it to Mr Tho . Astley , at the Insurance Office on the Royal Exchange ...
... Insurance Office , and subscribe the new Politie , that it may be known who the Insurers are ; and if any one has found the old Politie , they are desired to bring it to Mr Tho . Astley , at the Insurance Office on the Royal Exchange ...
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