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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... on his side , and having won his own Money back again , and as much more to it , of one particular Gentleman who was now fretting and fuming in as bad manner as Bourchier was before , he very courteously pull'd GAMBLING IN ENGLAND 23.
... on his side , and having won his own Money back again , and as much more to it , of one particular Gentleman who was now fretting and fuming in as bad manner as Bourchier was before , he very courteously pull'd GAMBLING IN ENGLAND 23.
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... that is , chance or hazard . And Lyra upon Pro . xvi . saith , To use Lots , is , by a variable event of some sensible thing , to determine some doubtfull or uncertaine matter , as to draw cuts , or GAMBLING IN ENGLAND 31.
... that is , chance or hazard . And Lyra upon Pro . xvi . saith , To use Lots , is , by a variable event of some sensible thing , to determine some doubtfull or uncertaine matter , as to draw cuts , or GAMBLING IN ENGLAND 31.
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... England , is not History of the Order of the Garter , vol . i . , p . 307 , is to be found the earliest mention of Cards , if , indeed , the Four Kings there mentioned are connected with Cards . The date would be 1278 . How , or when ...
... England , is not History of the Order of the Garter , vol . i . , p . 307 , is to be found the earliest mention of Cards , if , indeed , the Four Kings there mentioned are connected with Cards . The date would be 1278 . How , or when ...
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... England , shows that they had long been in use in 1463 , and were manufactured here , for , by an Act of Parlia- ment ( 3 Edward IV . cap . 4 ) , the importation of playing cards was forbidden . 1 We get an early notice of cards temp ...
... England , shows that they had long been in use in 1463 , and were manufactured here , for , by an Act of Parlia- ment ( 3 Edward IV . cap . 4 ) , the importation of playing cards was forbidden . 1 We get an early notice of cards temp ...
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