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To the Printer of ths Caledonian Mercury..SIR,

... The idea is blafphemous. Tt .dunenfis forgot both charity ar.d religion in hi: heat. Him who could tols rhe earth as a foot-ball, who could tear the fun from his centre, put out the light of the ftars with the waving of his l_and,|ftop the courfe of ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1786
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 612 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

JPolitical and aaf'l'ceuanm.u ~ Repofitow. ’ql'to the Printer o; the Aberdeen Journal. 01, ing’s Collegey Fam. ..

... l%erity of foulmouthed politics, vgich is fome relief, if Chriftmas bring no other. The Commercial ’l‘reat‘y is the favourite foot-ball, which aar “golitical cribes kick from one another with the ufual dexterity. From their play a bveftander can learn but listle ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1787
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2652 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Sabbath day, fied of Mr. Hatlings in Benares and had through the whole of his fpeech treated the for the purpofe playing football, wreftiing, from the rebellion that raged in the coun- fubjed only ironically. &c. Alderman having received int^llitry ; ...

Published: Monday 14 May 1787
Newspaper: Saunders's News-Letter
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2788 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

I. O N _• O NT,-—JW6

... diforderly perfons have made it a practice to ?? in the fieids near Merrion-fquare every Sabbath day, for the purpofe of playing football, wreitling &c. . Al- derman _ xihaw having received intelligence of thofe irregularities, proceeded thither on Sunday lad ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1787
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2389 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

I Monday the 25th of June, 1757, there yj be Eleven I'air ot Gloves, and Eleven Half Crownsi played for

... I Monday the 25th of June, 1757, there yj be Eleven I'air ot Gloves, and Eleven Half Crownsi played for at Football ; Bgai»R Hundred ; and the next d-ay Lleven Parr valuable Gloves, to be played for at Cricket; Brad well and Jill-ngham, at the King's-Heai ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1787
Newspaper: Chelmsford Chronicle
County: Essex, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 853 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WEDNESDAY, August 8, 17H7

... difputcs, we may adopt the comparifon which Swift applied to religious controvcr-| bes. An anxiety in the canfe of Liberty, like football, may fleep many years difregarded in the dull; but let it once receive a kick, and every man ready to venture a limb in keeping ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1787
Newspaper: Saunders's News-Letter
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3408 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TO THE PRINTERS OF THE SHEFFIELD REGISTEE

... THE SHEFFIELD REGISTER. Centlemsk* The Majority bting almoft two to one, and two to one ing odds at politics, as well at foot-ball, lam in favour of MAjUfTT. Whenever Minority turns about, I fide. STAIRS Sheffield, March TO THE PRINTERS OF THE SHEFFIELD ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1788
Newspaper: Sheffield Register
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1341 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

if GOAL S, / r'j . t

... mercy’s intermingled rays ! Oh | wond’rous lenity ! for man defign'd, Ap frail by nature, obftinate and blind— Temptation’s football, wily Satan's prey, And led by ev’ry paffing breeze away. There fhall no anzious cares difturb our reft, No headlong paffions ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1788
Newspaper: Stamford Mercury
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

An eating -song

... the culinary lance. Brandifh, boys, your knives and forks all. As you would in war the fpear ; Bloat yonr paunches like foot-ball, Eat in greafe from ear to ear. Still let us abhor this motto. Pauco vesco.’’---damping words But good roalt beef, piping ...

Published: Friday 29 August 1788
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 2944 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WEDNESDAY, February ii, 1759

... concerned to hear, lies very ill at his honfe in Frederick-llreet, of a hurt he received in his foot. On Sunday evening laft, a foot-ball match was played at the foot of the mountain called the Three Rocks, a few miles, above Rathfarnham, By Permlflion of the ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1789
Newspaper: Saunders's News-Letter
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4240 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TOLLS TO BE LETT. is

... Water only. AT Meeting of the Citizens and Inhabitants of GLOUCESTER, holden in purfuance of public Adwrtifensent, at the football in the fuid City, on Thuriiiay the sth Dry of March, 1719, The Right W*rihipful SAMUEL WOODCOCK, Hiq; Mayor, in the Chair ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1789
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2307 | Page: 2 | Tags: none