… whose Conversation is so pleasant as that of military Men’. 2 The military had its own codes of sociability, including duelling when an affront was offered – a practice in which he once engaged and of which he then became a vocal critic. 3 …
… card. 4 . Connoisseur, Thursday 21st August 1755, p. 83. 5 . Quoted in Donna T. Andrew, Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, …