An Essay on the Practice of Duelling, as It Exists in Modern Society; Occasioned by the Late Lamentable Occurrance Near Philadelphia - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0217167373 ISBN 13: 9780217167376

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830. Excerpt: ... N.OTES. M ) Public opinion is nothing else but the sum of individual proclaimed opinions, and as there are few, who think themselves entitled to express, or to render public their opinion, it may happen that an absolute minority of proclaimed opinions may constitute the public opinion of a town, a city, a province, and even of a nation. (2) Why has the theft committed in a church been reckoned sacrilege, and punished more severely than any other theft? certainly not because'it is a greater crime to steal from God than from man! because the Almighty, wanting nothing, requires no property to supply his wants: Maker of the whole, the whole belongs to Him, but without any distinct property. The churches of former times were open during the whole day, and part of the night, to all sorts and classes of people, and thence the thief had great facility in perpetrating the crime; the churches not being particularly guarded by any person, and the multitude of visiters being mostly strangers, the difficulty of guarding against that crime was extreme; therefore the abhorrence expressed for that crime greater. (3) Some think that duelling is the consequence of a preposterous chivalry, yet it appears to me that duels would be fought in a different manner if this was the case. Voltaire, introducing in his Henriade a duel fought with the sword, would lead people to believe that such a mode of fighting was no longer in use in his times, or that it bad been much more in use in the preceding centuries. They who think that the degenerated Homans learned the aft from the gladiators, when their. emperors prostituted the imperial majesty by their exhibitions as gladiators, would not be able to say how this custom, which must have been preserved in the eastern empire, was brought...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0217167373
• ISBN 13: 9780217167376
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
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