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Club Life Of London With Anecdotes Of The Clubs, Coffee-houses And Taverns Of The Metropolis During The 17th, 18th, And 19th Centuries: By John Timbs;

The Club, in the general acceptation of the term, may be regarded as one of the earliest offshoots of Man's habitually gregarious and social inclination and as an instance of that remarkable influence which, in an early stage of society, the powers of Nature exercise over the fortunes of mankind. It may not be traceable to the time "When Adam dolve, and Eve span " but, it is natural to imagine that concurrent with the force of numbers must have increased the tendency of men to associate for some common object. This may have been the enjoyment of the staple of life for, our elegant Essayist, writing with ages of experience at his beck, has truly said, "all celebrated Clubs were founded upon eating and drinking, which are points where most men agree, and in which the learned and the illiterate, the dull and the airy, the philosopher and the buffoon, can all of them bear a part."For special proof of the antiquity of the practice it may suffice to refer to the polished Athenians, who had, besides their general symposia, friendly meetings, where every one sent his own portion of the feast, bore a proportionate part of the expense, or gave a pledge at a fixed price.A regard for clubbism existed even in Lycurgan Sparta: the public tables consisted generally of fifteen persons each, and all vacancies were filled up by ballot, in which unanimous consent was indispensable for election and the other laws, as described by Plutarch, differ but slightly from those of modern Clubs. Justus Lipsius mentions a bonâ fide Roman Club, the members of which were bound by certain organized rules and regulations. Cicero records (De Senectute) the pleasure he took in frequenting the meetings of those social parties of his time, termed confraternities, where, according to a good old custom, a president was appointed and he adds that the principal satisfaction he received from such entertainments, arose much less from the pleasures of the palate than from the opportunity thereby afforded him of enjoying excellent company and conversation. The cognomen Club claims descent from the Anglo-Saxon for Skinner derives it from clifian, cleofian (our cleave), from the division of the reckoning among the guests around the table. The word signifies uniting to divide, like clave, including the correlative meanings to adhere and to separate.

Club Life of London

With Anecdotes Of Its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, And Taverns, From The Seventeenth Century To The Present Time

Clubs And Club Life In London

Percy Fitzgerald

Howard Paul

Humour, Wit, and Wisdom, American, Legal, Theatrical

The Book of Modern Anecdotes

The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Vol. III

Abbeys, Castles, and Ancient Halls of England and Wales

Their Legendary Lore and Popular History

Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales

Anecdote Biography

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

School-Days of Eminent Men

Walks and Talks about London

Thomas Byerly

Containing Original Essays; Historical Narratives; Biographical Memoirs; Manners and Customs; Topographical Descriptions; Sketches and Tales; Anecdotes; Select Extracts from New and Expensive Works; Poetry, and Original and Selected; the Spirit of the Public Journals; Discoveries in the Arts and Sciences; New Facts in Natural History, &c

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Vol. II

Anecdote Lives of Wits and Humourists

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Laconics

Things Not Generally Known Curiosities of History, with New Lights by John Timbs

Strange Stories, Scenes, and Remarkable Persons of the Great Town

Romance of London

Historic sketches, remarkable duels, notorious highwaymen, rogueries, crimes, and punishments, and love and marriage

Arcana of Science and Art, Or an Annual Register of Popular Inventions and Improvements, Abridged from the Transactions of Public Societies, and from the Scientific Journals, British and Foreign, of the Past Year

Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis, with Nearly Sixty Years' Personal Recollections

Curiosities of London

John Timbs

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