PUGILISM, or the science of defence exemplified in short and easy lessons, for the practice of the Broad Sword and Single Stick. Whereby gentlemen may become proficients in the use of these weapons, without the help of a Master, and be enabled to chastise the insolence and temerity, so frequently met with, from those fashionable gentlemen, the Johnsonians, Big Bennians, and Mendozians of the present Day; a work perhaps better calculated to extirpate this reigning and brutal folly than a whole volume of sermons. By a Highland officer. Illustrated with copperplates1790
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Source pages: 20,21. Bracketed notes: ["4 copperplates, drawn by Cruikshank."]
Scholarly References
Thimm entry 121
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 20,21 · Entry 121
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Primary editionPUGILISM, or the science of defence exemplified in short and easy lessons, for the practice of the Broad Sword and Single Stick. Whereby gentlemen may become proficients in the use of these weapons, without the help of a Master, and be enabled to chastise the insolence and temerity, so frequently met with, from those fashionable gentlemen, the Johnsonians, Big Bennians, and Mendozians of the present Day; a work perhaps better calculated to extirpate this reigning and brutal folly than a whole volume of sermons. By a Highland officer. Illustrated with copperplates
