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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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Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles	ii expedients for satisfying the desires of the amorous appetite
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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