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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… already existed alongside private races on local moors, downs or floodplains. 1 Meeting numbers grew with the Stuarts’ love of the sport. Over the 1700s horse racing became by far the best-organized, best-supported, most high-status, …
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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… th Marquess of Queensberry, are still the foundation of the contemporary sport of boxing as they called for the use of gloves, for three-minute rounds, and for the ten-second countdown to declare a fighter knocked out. 1 . Rules to be … the essay entitled ‘The Fight’, Hazlitt explains how he attended a boxing match with a Friend and tries to reconcile his love for the manly entertainment with his sentimentality and his political sympathies by showing that one can … enjoy both a boxing match and reading Rousseau ’s Nouvelle Héloïse , as boxing is, all in all, less violent than love: Ladies! it is to you I dedicate this description; nor let it seem out of character for the fair to notice the …
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