An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling: Designed Especially as a Warning to the Youthful and Inexperienced Against the Evils of that Odious and Destructive ViseRedding, 1845 - Всего страниц: 324 |
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... Lottery Fac Simile of a Lottery Ticket , A Discourse on the Evils of Gaming . By Rev. E. H. Chapin 296 Conclusion , 315 181 189 190 195 196 196 197 200 200 203 204 206 207 210 220 222 223 225 229 234 238 246 251 262 273 278 284 294 295 ...
... Lottery Fac Simile of a Lottery Ticket , A Discourse on the Evils of Gaming . By Rev. E. H. Chapin 296 Conclusion , 315 181 189 190 195 196 196 197 200 200 203 204 206 207 210 220 222 223 225 229 234 238 246 251 262 273 278 284 294 295 ...
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... try to introduce some new pattern ; but if they should , it will certainly be sufficient to satisfy every man of sense , that the manufacturers do it for their own advantage . Lotteries . power ; that is , if the party 272 ARTS AND ...
... try to introduce some new pattern ; but if they should , it will certainly be sufficient to satisfy every man of sense , that the manufacturers do it for their own advantage . Lotteries . power ; that is , if the party 272 ARTS AND ...
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... Lotteries . power ; that is , if the party have not strong eyes , or happen to be old men , or drunken men , who could not see a mark on a card unless it was very large ... Lottery . man may gamble as extensively OF GAMBLING . 273 Lotteries,
... Lotteries . power ; that is , if the party have not strong eyes , or happen to be old men , or drunken men , who could not see a mark on a card unless it was very large ... Lottery . man may gamble as extensively OF GAMBLING . 273 Lotteries,
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... Lottery . man may gamble as extensively as he pleases in lotteries , without his proceedings being at all likely to become public . In my description of lotteries , I shall confine myself to the lottery scheme before us ; because it ...
... Lottery . man may gamble as extensively as he pleases in lotteries , without his proceedings being at all likely to become public . In my description of lotteries , I shall confine myself to the lottery scheme before us ; because it ...
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... Lottery . then there are seventy - eight small tin tubes , scarcely half an inch in diameter , and about three inches in length ; these are for holding the numbers ... Lottery . gone over with ,. Drawing of Lottery Tickets . OF GAMBLING .
... Lottery . then there are seventy - eight small tin tubes , scarcely half an inch in diameter , and about three inches in length ; these are for holding the numbers ... Lottery . gone over with ,. Drawing of Lottery Tickets . OF GAMBLING .
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Стр. 179 - ... agree, the extra cards may be drawn by the dealer from his opponent's hand: and the same if the dealer gives himself too many cards. But, in either case, if a single card has been played, there must be a new deal. 3. No person can beg more than once in a hand, unless both parties agree.
Стр. 311 - ... of slighted, abused affection with the tears of starved and shivering childhood, — piercing her ear at once with the moans for bread and the curses of disappointed brutality. Once more, and there should be a GRAVE ! — a green and lowly grave — where the faithful heart that loved him to the last should rest from all its pangs, and the child that he had slighted should sleep as cold and still as the bosom that once nourished it; a grave! where even the wide and distant heaven should be kinder...
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Стр. 112 - Bending ; is used when a punter, having lost half his stake by a doublet, bends a card in the middle, and setting it up with the points and foot towards the dealer, signifies thereby a desire either of recovering the moiety, or of losing all. Pont; a Bridge.
Стр. 148 - The young man, who had gone to bed, got up, and felt a strong propensity to win all. He began betting on the game again, and in a short time lost the whole of his nine hundred dollars trying to win a button : for that was all he could have won, as the man had no money at first, but what he had won from the young man. The young man was obliged to make his way home, without his health being benefited, and without his money. (i) THE RUINED MERCHANT. — A writer in the
Стр. 278 - Drawing of the Lottery. The following is a copy of a handbill issued by the proprietors of the lottery immediately after a drawing, for the information of ticket-holders, and all others interested : — DRAWING OF THE LOTTERY. The following are the numbers which were this day drawn from the seventy-eight placed in the wheel, viz. : — 1 2 3 4...
Стр. 147 - ... against the button, and the banker won. He tried again and again, until he lost some three or four dollars, to win the button, and then went to bed. The banker had now several persons betting small bets on the game, and had won some eight or ten dollars, and there was quite a noise and bustle going on. The young man who had quit and gone to bed, got up, and felt a strong propensity to win all.