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<add>in</add> wait <add>laying schemes</add> in order to assassinate the others. Compare<lb/>the dissentions in Bengal with [those in Athens<lb/>at the time of | <add>in</add> wait <add>laying schemes</add> in order to assassinate the others. Compare<lb/>the dissentions in Bengal with [those in Athens<lb/>at the time of Pisistratus or] those in Rome<lb/>at the time of the triumvirate: the one ended <add>produced</add><lb/>in <del>a</del> <add>one</add> bloodless duel: the other in a proscription<lb/>which cost <!-- blank space --> persons their lives. Compare the<lb/><del>contests in the</del> quarrels <add>discords</add> which have the British<lb/>with those which had the Roman senate for their<lb/>theatre. On the one part, you have three or four<lb/>duels in as many years: on the other part you<lb/>have assassinations, proscriptions and civil wars<lb/>carried on without quarter. Had duelling been the<lb/>fashion at Rome, Clodius in his quarrel <add>dispute</add> with Milo<lb/>might have come off with <add>got off for</add> a flesh wound:<lb/>and Cicero and Anthony after <del>firin</del> exchanging<lb/>the fire <add>a few shot</add> of a brace of pistols might have been<lb/>the best friends imaginable.<lb/><p>In our own times, duels are not <add>seem not to be</add> so common<lb/>in Italy as in Great Britain or in<lb/>France: but unhappily poisonings and assassinations<lb/>are much more so.<lb/></p><p><del>It</del> I have shewn elsewhere that the coincidence<lb/>of the prevailing of the practise of duelling <add>frequency of duelling</add><lb/>with the unfrequency of <del>poisoning and assassination</del> the<lb/>two other modes of giving vent to vengeance <add>the irascible appetite</add> , is not<lb/>a mere accident: but that the latter state of things<lb/>is a natural consequence of the former.<lb/></p><p>Another good consequence resulting from <add>effect produced by</add> <note>the prevalence of<lb/> this custom<lb/></note> this feature<lb/>in <add>modern</add> European manners I shall have occasion to <lb/>take notice of farther <del>on</del> in another section. <lb/><note>§</note><lb/></p><pb/> | ||
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in wait laying schemes in order to assassinate the others. Compare
the dissentions in Bengal with [those in Athens
at the time of Pisistratus or] those in Rome
at the time of the triumvirate: the one ended produced
in a one bloodless duel: the other in a proscription
which cost persons their lives. Compare the
contests in the quarrels discords which have the British
with those which had the Roman senate for their
theatre. On the one part, you have three or four
duels in as many years: on the other part you
have assassinations, proscriptions and civil wars
carried on without quarter. Had duelling been the
fashion at Rome, Clodius in his quarrel dispute with Milo
might have come off with got off for a flesh wound:
and Cicero and Anthony after firin exchanging
the fire a few shot of a brace of pistols might have been
the best friends imaginable.
In our own times, duels are not seem not to be so common
in Italy as in Great Britain or in
France: but unhappily poisonings and assassinations
are much more so.
It I have shewn elsewhere that the coincidence
of the prevailing of the practise of duelling frequency of duelling
with the unfrequency of poisoning and assassination the
two other modes of giving vent to vengeance the irascible appetite , is not
a mere accident: but that the latter state of things
is a natural consequence of the former.
Another good consequence resulting from effect produced by the prevalence of
this custom
this feature
in modern European manners I shall have occasion to
take notice of farther on in another section.
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