Duelling (1753) [ Practices ]
… by that means a witness of what both he and my mother suffered; completed [p. 57] my abhorrence of the vile practice of duelling. I went on, however, in endeavouring to make myself a master of the science, as it is called; and, among the … only son; and I wanted not when a boy, a turn that way: But the disgust I had conceived on the above occasion, against duelling, and the consideration of the absurd alternative which the gentlemen of our army are under, either to accept a … Mr. Jord. But you lead from the point, Mr. Bagenhall: Sir Charles was going to say somewhat more on the subject of duelling. Sir Ch. When I was thus unhappily deprived of my Mother, my Father, in order to abate my grief [I was very much …
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