invented by the Lydians when under the pressure of a great famine; to divert themselves from their ...
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regular tables exist adapted to all cases; and there can be no doubt that those who have realized l...
on the single account of the disadvantage of the play, they lost one-eighth part of all the money p...
friends.' We afterwards find them bearing just as bad a character among the Romans. Says Juvenal-- ...
billiard-marker before described was pitched upon to 'do' the stranger. The macer 'pitched the baby...
which was noticed in the different journals as "coming on," is withdrawn, or, more properly speakin...
have made capital. What is the crime of stealing a sheep, or picking a pocket of a handkerchief, wh...
Crockford was originally a FISHMONGER, keeping a shop near Temple Bar. By embarking in this specula...
find that I am about L10,000 better than as though I had not played. That is a yearly average of L5...
Duncombe's 'Life' of his father occurs the following account of this curious transaction. 'In Grah...
occasions exercised a practical sort of wit, which was equally certain of gaining patronage. Visito...
more) there is not a gentleman in the room--the rest are all blacklegs.' On leaving the place, the...
Empress Anne, obtained information that the court of Versailles had formed a scheme to send an insi...
if there were not six in the game.' These wishes were several times repeated both then and afterwar...
he should take the opportunity of destroying it, but the latter wanted either the courage or the pr...