Boxiana (1821) [ Practices ]
… treachery; not to stab persons in the dark; and to become horrorstruck at ASSASSINATION. It likewise is a stimulus to love of country;-and these maxims are not only thorough-bred English ones from top to toe, but they are felt and … the admiral, the poet and the painter, and the architect and the sculptor, are all actuated by one powerful stimulus-the love of fame and the sweets of reward. PRIZE-FIGHTING has also its advantages, even at a distance from the ring, when the …
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