The Only Approved Guide Through All the Stages of a QuarrelHatchard & sons, 1829 - 266 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
adversary aggressor Annadale Cottage antagonist apology Barrington Barron blood brother called Capt chal challenge character Code of Honor Colonel Ross conduct considered courage Court of Honor death declared discharge distance Dublin duellist Duke Duke of York editor fatal duel feelings fell fight a duel fire Fitzgerald fought FRANCIS WYSE Freeman's Journal Galway gentleman George Robert Fitzgerald Gillespie give Grattan ground hand Henry Grattan individual injury insult Ireland Irish Jonah Barrington Jonas Hanway JOSEPH HAMILTON justify killed knight lady letter Lord Camelford Major Edgeworth Major Green meeting ment Messrs morning MORRIS murder never occasion offence officer opinion parties Patriots person pistol point of honor present Prince principals proprietor quarrel racter received reconciliation reflections upon duelling refused regiment reparation replied Richard Sargent Royal Code Sargent satisfaction says sent shot single combat sword theatre tion trifling VICEROY OF NORWAY Waterford wounded
Pasajes populares
Página 175 - Gallant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more ! There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord...
Página 45 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Página 24 - Honour's a sacred tie ; the law of kings ; The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens Virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not.
Página 251 - This court was in great reputation in the times of pure chivalry, and afterwards, during our connexions with the continent, by the territories which our princes held in France: but is now grown almost entirely out of use, on account of the feebleness of its jurisdiction, and want of power to enforce its judgments; as it can neither fine nor imprison, not being a court of record.
Página 130 - Nil fa/si audeat, nil veri non audeat dicere ;" that its horizon shall extend to the farthest verge and limit of truth ; that beyond that limit it shall not dare to pass ; that it shall speak truth to the King, in the hearing of the people, and to the people in the hearing of the King...
Página 30 - If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or a barn door, about my dimensions. If you hit that, send me word, and I shall acknowledge that if I had been in the same place you might also have hit me.
Página 212 - The above rules apply to all cases of offences in retort not of a stronger class than the example. 3. — If a doubt exist who gave the first offence, the decision rests with the seconds ; if they won't decide, or can't agree, the matter must proceed to two shots, or to a hit, if the challenger require it.
Página 213 - When the lie direct is the first offence, the aggressor must either beg pardon in express terms, exchange two shots previous to apology, or three shots followed up by explanation, or fire on till a severe hit be received by one party or the other.
Página 212 - B retorts, that he lies : yet A must make the first apology, because he gave the first offence, and then (after one fire) B may explain away the retort by subsequent apology. RULE 2. But if the parties would rather fight on, then, after two shots each, (but in no case before,) B may explain first, and A apologize afterwards.
Página 40 - It is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression : " The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression