 In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of a sweepstakes had come into vogue ; and the opportunity it gave to deep calculators to secure themselves from loss by hedging their bets, greatly multiplied the bettors, and gave uncommon...  The Sportsman - Page 71Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Holcroft - Actors - 1816 - 322 pages
...appeared to me, who then knew nothing of vast money speculations, and who know but little at present. In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of a sweepstakes had 164 come into vogue : and the opportunity it gave to deep calculators to secure themselves... | |
 | John Le Keux - 1829 - 476 pages
...if we here again quote the words of the late Mr. Holcroft, as it exposes one of those artifices. He says : " In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of a sweepstakes had come into vogue ; and the opportunity it gave to deep calculators to secure themselves... | |
 | 1851
...of upwards of 100 per cent. The capital of racing has stood still for the last hundred years — so has its policy, and its principle. Holcroft, in his...In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adyenture, that of $weepstohes has come into vogue." And this latter conceit is the last of its novelties.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 586 pages
...the best bettor of his day, as may be inferred from the following page of Holcroft's Memoirs : — ' In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of a sweepstakes had come into vogue ; and the opportunity it gave to deep calculators to secure themselves... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 596 pages
...the best bettor of his day, as may be inferred from the following page of Holcroft's Memoirs: — ' In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of a sweepstakes had come into vogue ; and the opportunity it gave to deep calculators to secure themselves... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 594 pages
...the best bettor of his day, as may be inferred from the following page of Holcroft's Memoirs: — ' In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of a sweepstakes had come into vogue ; and the opportunity it gave to deep calculators to secure themselves... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1851 - 726 pages
...of upwards of 100 per cent. The capital of racing lias stood still for the last hundred years — BO has its policy, and its principle. Holcroft, in his...matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of tweepitakes haa come into rogue." And this latter conceit is the last of its uoveltics. The rule was,... | |
 | Nimrod - Driving of horse-drawn vehicles - 1843 - 324 pages
...the best bettor of his day, as may be inferred from the following page of Holcroft's Memoirs : — " In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of a sweepstakes had come into vogue ; and the opportunity it gave to deep calculators to secure themselves... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...following quotation from Holcroft, once his stable-lad, and finally his biographer! The literary groom says:— " In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of a sweepstakes had come into vogue, and the opportunity it gave to deep calculators to secure themselves... | |
 | Nimrod - Horse racing - 1851 - 170 pages
...the best bettor of his day, as may be inferred from the following page of Holcroft's Memoirs : — " In addition to matches, plates, and other modes of adventure, that of a sweepstakes had come into vogue ; and the opportunity it gave to deep calculators to secure themselves... | |
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