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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 of Marine risks only , other policies can be taken out at Lloyd's - such as Fire ; against Burglary - although this was also insured against during the South Sea Mania , under the title of Insurance from housebreakers ...
... Insurance of Marine risks only , other policies can be taken out at Lloyd's - such as Fire ; against Burglary - although this was also insured against during the South Sea Mania , under the title of Insurance from housebreakers ...
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afterwards appeared betting Buckinghamshire Buckley Square called Captain Cards chance cheating Club Coffee House Committee course Court Covent Garden Crockford's cross and pile croupiers d'Eon dice dinner Doncaster Duke Faro bank fortune gamblers gambling houses GAMBLING IN ENGLAND gamester gaming house gaming-house gave gentleman George give Groom Porter guineas hand hath hazard honour horse racing hundred pounds Insurance John John Outlawe Justice keeper King Knave lady letter London Lord Lordship lose loser lost Lots lottery luck Mayor morning never Newmarket night paid Parliament parties person play players prize proprietors Queen Railway Railway Mania reign says servants shillings Sir George Chetwynd speculation sport St James's Street stakes Stock subscribed SUNDAY HOUSES tells Thornton thou thousand guineas thousand pounds ticket tion town Turf wager whilst White's White's Club witness
Popular passages
Page 55 - At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine; The merchant from th' Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the toilet cease.
Page 150 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 56 - In heaps on heaps; one fate o'erwhelms them all. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (oh shameful chance!) the Queen of Hearts. At this, the blood the virgin's cheek forsook, A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look; She sees, and trembles at th' approaching ill, Just in the jaws of ruin, and Codille.
Page 56 - What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe?
Page 151 - What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion?
Page 150 - And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments.
Page 156 - They have put in the papers a good story made on White's: a man dropped down dead at the door, was carried in; the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet.
Page 150 - And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, entice thy husband that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire. Have ye called us to take that we have ? Is it not so ? And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not.
Page 151 - And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle.
Page 55 - Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the toilet cease. Belinda now, whom thirst of fame invites...