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... épée de combat , as entitled to at least an equal place in classic fencing , with the foil . To many fencers of the older school this bare statement of fact will be a surprise , but the real wonder is that the revival of the small ...
... épée de combat , as entitled to at least an equal place in classic fencing , with the foil . To many fencers of the older school this bare statement of fact will be a surprise , but the real wonder is that the revival of the small ...
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... épée blades pure and simple ; the latter , being the more flexible , were chiefly used for training boys and beginners , but were ill - balanced and heavy at the point . All this time fencing was carried on without masks , and many ...
... épée blades pure and simple ; the latter , being the more flexible , were chiefly used for training boys and beginners , but were ill - balanced and heavy at the point . All this time fencing was carried on without masks , and many ...
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... épée properly so called , and the absurd manner in which the épées of his day were mounted and balanced . It is thus evident that somewhere about the beginning of the nineteenth century the épée , as a fencing - room weapon , was giving ...
... épée properly so called , and the absurd manner in which the épées of his day were mounted and balanced . It is thus evident that somewhere about the beginning of the nineteenth century the épée , as a fencing - room weapon , was giving ...
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... épée . But time and practice cured these defects , and it has long been possible for the neatest exponents of the épée , such for instance as Albert Ayat among professors , and MM . Joseph Renaud , Edmond Wallace , and Holzchuch , to ...
... épée . But time and practice cured these defects , and it has long been possible for the neatest exponents of the épée , such for instance as Albert Ayat among professors , and MM . Joseph Renaud , Edmond Wallace , and Holzchuch , to ...
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... épée can be handled with the same mastery of style which is typical of the right foil - play , there would be little justification for the claim that the épée has come , seen , and conquered us . Nor could it have become popular without ...
... épée can be handled with the same mastery of style which is typical of the right foil - play , there would be little justification for the claim that the épée has come , seen , and conquered us . Nor could it have become popular without ...
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Page 400 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 365 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...
Page 503 - I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
Page 53 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 53 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them , and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Page 53 - ... or the greater part of them, shall take order from time to time, by and with the consent of two or more such Justices of Peace as is aforesaid...
Page 75 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also **. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Page 365 - It is but too true, that the love, and even the very idea, of genuine liberty is extremely rare. It is but too true that there are many whose whole scheme of freedom is made up of pride, perverseness, and insolence. They feel themselves in a state of thraldom, they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man or some body of men dependent on their mercy.
Page 366 - Protestant cobbler, debased by his poverty, but exalted by his share of the ruling church, feels a pride in knowing it is by his generosity alone that the peer whose footman's instep he measures is able to keep his chaplain from a jail.
Page 500 - In case neither of the high contracting parties should have notified twelve months before the expiration of the said ten years the intention of terminating it, it shall remain binding until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the high contracting parties...