To the multitude of early card players, cards were of no other and no greater benefit as a means of mental discipline.
Other French writers maintain that playing cards were in use in France as early as 1350.
Many German authors claim that playing cards were in common use throughout Germany at a much earlier period.
Cards were produced, and I soon found myself at a table with a young lady of fair complexion and a plain-looking woman well advanced in years, who seemed, however, not to be destitute of wit.
After supper, which did not last very long, cards were produced, and one of the officers held a bank at faro.
She had the pleasure of seeing her bank broken at the first deal, and indeed this result was to be expected, as anybody not an absolute idiot could see how the cards were going.
When we rose from the table in excellent humour with ourselves and our surroundings, cards were proposed, and Rosalie, who knew my likings, said it must be trente-quarante.
A card-sharper having been detected in cheating, a great quantity of cards were found in his possession.
When unglazed, or 'steam-boat' cards werein general use, a very efficient mode of marking was devised.
A very intelligent writer upon the origin of engraving, baron Heineken, asserts that playing-cards were invented in Germany, where they were used towards the latter end of the fourteenth century; but his reasons are by no means conclusive.
Stukeley's cards were purchased at his sale by Mr. Tuttet, and again at his sale by Mr. Gough, in whose possession they now remain.
A Bolognese gentleman named Innocento Renghierri, who lived in 1551, declared that "cards were invented in days of yore, and by an industrious and very learned person.
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