Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… speak disrespectfully of any Woman, is Expulsion from our gentle Society. As we are at present all of us Gown-men, instead of duelling when we are Rivals, we drink together the Health of our Mistress.’ 8 In another essay, he attacks the … hero fights a duel with Fitzpatrick. In Amelia , Dr Harrison finds that the defence of honour is incompatible with the teachings of religion (Andrew 44). In Smollett’s Roderick Random , the hero is always ready to fight a duel, paying …
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