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No. 30. The CONNOISSEUR. iy9white and delicate as a lady’s. I cannot but regret, that this dcfign was not generally encouraged, as it might perhaps have abolifhed almoft the only ufe, that is at prefent made of the fword ; and men of honour, inftead of tiltin'*oat each other, might have had fatisfacion in a tight Set-to behind Mount ague Ho ufe.The amufement of Boxing I inufl confefs is more immediately calculated for the vulgar, who can have no relifh for the more refined pleafures of whift and the hazard table. Men of fafhion have found out a more genteel employment for their hands in fhuffling a pack of cards and fhaking the dice: and indeed it will appear upon a ftridt review, that moft of our fafhionable diverfions are nothing elfe but different branches of gaming. What lady would be able to boaft a route at her houfe confining of three or four hundred perfons, if they were not to be drawn together by the charms of playing a rubber ? and the prohibition of our jubilee mafquerades is hardly to be regretted, as they wanted the rnoft effential part of their entertainments, the E. O. table. To this polite fpirit of gaming, which has diffufed itfelf through all the fafhionable world, is owing the vaft encouragement that is given to the Turf; and horfe-races arc cftcemed only as they afford occafion for making a bet. The fame fpirit like-wife draws the knowing ones together in a Cock-pit; and cocks are refcued from the dunghill, and armed with gaffles, to furnifh a new fpecies of gaming. For this reafon among others I cannot but regret the lofs of our elegant amufements in Oxford Road and Tottenham Court. A great part of the fpeators ufed to be deeply inte-refled in what was doing on the ftage, and were as earneft to make an advantage of the iffue of the battle,P p p alt;
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London Royal Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Aug 22, 1754
Page 6
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David L.
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