English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art (1907)
Davies, Randall, 1866-1946 · London, Seeley and co., limited; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 106
ies who never riseto such an inordinance of passion! Though the sex here arenaturally fond of games of chance, and are taught to manage gamesof skill from their infancy, yet they never pursue ill-fortune withsuch amazing intrepidity. Indeed, I may entirely acquit them ofever playing—I mean playing… … rUE INFLUENCE OF T^ETNOLDS ^ND QAINSBOROUGH 53 they play their husbands into a jail; yet still they preserve a decorumunknown to our wives and daughters of China. I have been presentat a rout in this country where a woman of fashion, after losing hermoney, has sat writhing in all the agonies of bad…
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