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" ... so excellent a book printed. I'm quite in raptures with it. I will eat with it, sleep with it, go to Parliament with it, go to church with it. I pronounce it the gospel of Whist-players. I want words to express the author, and can look on him in no... "
The Humours of Whist: A Dramatic Satire, as Acted Every Day at White's and ... - Page 8
1743 - 60 pages
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London Society, Volume 5; Volume 7

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1865 - 696 pages
...new, I want words to express my admiration of the author. * * » » ' I /ml Slim. — I have joined twelve companies in the Mall, and eleven of them were talking of it. It's the subject of all conversations, and has had the honour to be introduced into the cabinet....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 130

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 - 1871 - 604 pages
...to express the author, and can look on him in no other light than as a second Newton. I have joined twelve companies in the Mall, and eleven of them were talking of it. It's the subject of all conversation, and has had the honour to bo introduced into the Cabinet.'...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 130

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 - 1871 - 604 pages
...can look on him in no other light i : 54 Modern Whist. light than as a second Newton. I have joined twelve companies in the Mall, and eleven of them were talking of it. It's the subject of all conversation, and has had the honour to be introduced into thu Cabinet.'...
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England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the ..., Volume 1

William Connor Sydney - Great Britain - 1891 - 384 pages
...to express the author, and can look on him in no other light than as a second Newton. I have joined twelve companies in the Mall, and eleven of them were talking of it. It's the subject of all conversation, and has had the honour to be introduced into the cabinet....
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The Evolution of Whist: A Study of the Progressive Changes which the Game ...

William Pole - Whist - 1894 - 312 pages
...to express the author, and can look on him in no other light than as a second Newton. I have joined twelve companies in the Mall, and eleven of them were talking of it. It's the subject of all conversation, and has had the honour to be introduced into the Cabinet."...
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