Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… to the Laws of Honour and the Character of a Gentleman (London: Knight and Lacey, 1824), p. 9. 3 . See also The Spectator, n° 99 (23 June 1711). 4 . Donna T. Andrew, Aristocratic Vice. The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and … it seems that the number of duels had waned by the end of the eighteenth century (Kiernan 185). In an issue of The Spectator devoted to clubs, Addison tells us that there was even a club which he finds ‘mischievous’, the ‘Club of … to the very Refuse of Mankind, who have neither Virtue nor common Sense, to set up for Men of Honour. 9 Elsewhere, The Spectator argues that : ‘[…] by the Force of a Tyrant Custom, which is misnamed a Point of Honour, the Duellist kills his …
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