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Author: SHADOW DANCE.Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The Shadow Dance: Or, the Licensed Victuallers' Ball. A Satire [in Verse. Reprinted from the Cheltenham Mercury].
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Author: SHADOW DANCE.General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
The History of Gambling in England
Author: John AshtonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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.
Shakespeare's England
Author: Charles Talbut OnionsPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The Lawyer
Author: William AndrewsLondon Labour and the London Poor
Author: Henry MayhewPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605207330
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume I explores the lives of: the "wandering tribes" costermongers sellers of fish, fruits and vegetables sellers of books and stationery sellers of manufactured goods women and children on the streets and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine *Punch.*
Traditions of Edinburgh
Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
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Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A history of advertising
Author: Henry SampsonPublisher:
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Aftershock
Author: David MatasPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550025538
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide. How has that happened? This book attempts to explain the phenomenon. Anti-Zionists, whose primary goal is destruction of the State of Israel, use accusations of the worst forms of human rights violations against Israel to delegitimize the state. These accusations criminalize the Jewish population worldwide for actual or presumed support of the State of Israel. The contemporary international human rights system and the existence of the State of Israel are twin legacies of the Holocaust. The failure of the human rights system to prevent attacks on Israel and the Jews is an aftershock of the Holocaust.
A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times
Author: Henry SampsonPublisher:
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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