… and tactics the pugilist's NOB soon becomes a mere dummy in the hands of his opponent. A boxer without a HEART is an impostor indeed! But such things cannot be; a fighting man without the above pendulum , which moves or is at the bottom … a most respectable magistrate, and much admired for his urbanity and upright conduct. … "A boxer without a HEART is an impostor indeed! But such things cannot be; a fighting man without the above pendulum , which moves or is at the bottom …
… G[reatrakes] the famous Irish Stroker, […] undergoes various censures here, some take him to be a Conjurer, and some an Impostor, but others again adore him as an Apostle. I confess I think the man is free from all design, of a very …
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… the end of the Georgian era (1830) to attack all the languages that were not deemed compatible with genteel sociability. Impostors, crooks, cheats, enthusiasts, Methodists, Jacobins and sentimentalists were all named ‘canters’ at one moment …
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