The History of Duelling: Including, Narratives of the Most Remarkable Personal Encounters That Have Taken Place from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

While calmly perusing the annals of duelling we cannot but be amazed when we behold, in the present day of pretended intellectual perfection, this practice adopted in a society which prides itself upon its boasted high state of civilization. The details of ancient duels and single combats, which in fact were little better than qualified murders, may be revolting from their barbarous excesses ;yet no study will tend more effectually to rub off from the pictorial romance of history its deceptive varnish, than that of duelling, its progress, and its occasional comparative disappearance when it ceased to be fashionable, or resorted to by the upper classes of society. VOL. I.
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