unlawful games, provided that the sum of money run for or the value of the prize should be fifty po...
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depend upon bodily skill and effort, foot, horse, and chariot races, and others of the like nature:...
being seized and hanged in public, murdered themselves in private. The capital prizes were so larg...
he challenged the bank, and tossed his pocket-book to the banker that he might be satisfied of his ...
where I am to be found." A further altercation ensued; but his Lordship being at the other end of t...
he was called; and his eccentricities used to amuse even the croupiers. After losing a large fortun...
the Colonel appointed to meet him next day to transact for stock accordingly. Going in a hackney-co...
hard at one another; but were prevented, by the great crowd which gathered about them, from doing a...
intentioned, tribute, "spare me this terrible irony. Do not provoke the inevitable retort. Say of m...
employed in forming a picture-gallery; and he printed at Paris, for private distribution, an ode on...
powder, to which Fox wittily alluded, after the duel, saying--`Egad, Adam, you would have killed me...
display. Of his learning he was proud--but rather as adding lustre to his celebrity for universal t...
my apologies, to which I shall beg leave to add how very sincerely I have the honour to be, my dear...
He was then a very young man, but succeeded so well in giving satisfaction, that the king offered t...
has it come to pass that men of genius, talent, and virtue withal, have been gamesters? Men of gen...