Portrait of a Century
Title | Portrait of a Century PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Kay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Art museums |
ISBN |
The rural life of England
Title | The rural life of England PDF eBook |
Author | William Howitt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 860 |
Release | 1838 |
Genre | England |
ISBN |
The History of Gambling in England
Title | The History of Gambling in England PDF eBook |
Author | John Ashton |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Difference 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.
Ilkley: Ancient & Modern
Title | Ilkley: Ancient & Modern PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Collyer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | England |
ISBN |
An Historical Account of the Diocese of Down and Connor, Ancient and Modern
Title | An Historical Account of the Diocese of Down and Connor, Ancient and Modern PDF eBook |
Author | James O'Laverty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 534 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Parishes |
ISBN |
A History of the Borough of Plympton Erle
Title | A History of the Borough of Plympton Erle PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Brooking Rowe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Plympton (England) |
ISBN |
The History of the County of Derby
Title | The History of the County of Derby PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Glover |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1829 |
Genre | |
ISBN |