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English Romantic essayist, critic, translator and journalist, best known for Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Thomas De Quincey wrote across literature, philosophy, history and public affairs; the linked collected works preserve his relevant discussions of violence and honour.
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Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Two Declarations from Lord Fairfax and the General Council of His Army” (1647). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Thomas Fewtrell is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Boxing Reviewed; or, The Science of Manual Defence” (1790). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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British fencing author of The Modern Fencer, a concise foil manual issued by Frederick Warne in London in the 1860s.
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British biographer who prepared the two-volume life and correspondence of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe.
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English philosopher, political theorist and writer with strong interests in geometry, optics and mechanics. Thomas Hobbes applied geometrical reasoning to sword contact in the autograph treatise The Mathematical Demonstration of the Sword, presented to William Cavendish.
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English lawyer, judge, politician and author, best known for the school novel Tom Brown’s School Days, first published anonymously in 1857.
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Welsh-born Anglican clergyman, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and author of `A Sermon upon Duelling`, preached in 1791 and published in 1792. He belongs to the moral and academic literature surrounding the duel, representing the clerical and reformist critique of honour violence in late eighteenth-century Britain.
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Thomas Kellie is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Pallas Armata, or Militarie Instructions for the learned, and all generous spirits who affect the profession of Armes. The first part containing the Exercise of Infanterie, as well ancient as moderne, etc” (1627). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Thomás Luís is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Tratado das liçoens da espada preta, e destreza, que haõ de usar os jogadores della” (1688). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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British fencing writer known for The Use of the Broad Sword (Norwich, 1746), which relates Highland broadsword practice to the scimitar and illustrates cuts, guards and disarms.
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English clergyman, poet and royal chaplain. His late collection Sermons and Devotions, Old and New includes a Discourse of Duels; the life dates are approximate.
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