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- Sharper abstract "A sharper is an older term, common since the seventeenth-century, for thieves who use trickery to part an owner with his or her money possessions. Sharpers vary from what are now known as con-men by virtue of the simplicity of their cons, which often were impromptu, rather than carefully orchestrated, though those certainly happened as well. The 1737 Dictionary of Thieving Slang defines a sharper as \"A Cheat, One who lives by his wits.\" In the nineteenth century, and into today, the term is more closely associated with gambling.Sharpers were romantic figures in the eighteenth-century, valued as imaginative figures for their perceived social independence and ability to create new social networks of gangs. The appeal of an independent society, operating outside the law, has been imaginative evocative for centuries, but in eighteenth-century London philosophical thought, influenced by Thomas Hobbes and Rousseau's new formulations of social contract, the romanticization of thievery reached new levels. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and Henry Fielding's novel Jonathan Wild are only two examples of sharpers as heroes, in these cases, to provide satirical ammunition against the British Prime Minister Horace Walpole.".
- Sharper thumbnail Jacob_van_Oost_(I)_-_Card-Sharpers_-_WGA16648.jpg?width=300.
- Sharper wikiPageExternalLink sharpers.htm.
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- Sharper wikiPageLength "1670".
- Sharper wikiPageOutDegree "15".
- Sharper wikiPageRevisionID "682177901".
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Card_sharp.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Category:Thieves.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Confidence_trick.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Gambling.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Gang.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Fielding.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Horace_Walpole.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Jean-Jacques_Rousseau.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink John_Gay.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Jonathan_Wild.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink London.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink The_Beggars_Opera.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink Thomas_Hobbes.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLink File:Jacob_van_Oost_(I)_-_Card-Sharpers_-_WGA16648.jpg.
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLinkText "card sharper".
- Sharper wikiPageWikiLinkText "sharper".
- Sharper wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Job-stub.
- Sharper wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:No_footnotes.
- Sharper wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Wiktionary.
- Sharper subject Category:Thieves.
- Sharper type Occupation.
- Sharper comment "A sharper is an older term, common since the seventeenth-century, for thieves who use trickery to part an owner with his or her money possessions. Sharpers vary from what are now known as con-men by virtue of the simplicity of their cons, which often were impromptu, rather than carefully orchestrated, though those certainly happened as well.".
- Sharper label "Sharper".
- Sharper sameAs Q7490395.
- Sharper sameAs 타짜꾼.
- Sharper sameAs m.03m6q9.
- Sharper sameAs Q7490395.
- Sharper wasDerivedFrom Sharper?oldid=682177901.
- Sharper depiction Jacob_van_Oost_(I)_-_Card-Sharpers_-_WGA16648.jpg.
- Sharper isPrimaryTopicOf Sharper.