Modern Art of Boxing, 1789 [ Practices ]
… THE requisites necessary to form a good boxer, are five, viz. Strength, Courage, Art, Activity, and Wind: but as the two latter can be acquired in great degree by practice, and therefore more properly come under the head Art -- all these qualities may be resolveable into the three first and great requisites, Strength Courage, and Art. It is a contested point with many, which is the most important requisite, Strength or Art: it must be confessed, …
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