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Ward and MendoM, and their pupils, at the Lyceum in ^he Strand; with only this, difference, that the mufflers there tiled at e fo very thickly fluffed and lined with wool, as to prevent almi*ft any blow from doing execution.*' Boxing, though a vulgar exercife, is certainly char.acleri flic of Britiih courage, and ought not to be difcnuraged by a warlike nation; fmce athletes of every denomination veneral'v make the beft foldiers.—And the Engltfh tailors, the mod hrrepid clafs of men in tlie world, frequently anuil'e thenifelves, in their leifure hours, in a mode of boxing different from the reft of mankind ; l'ince, for want of n'om, they box in a fitting pof-ture, and are generally fattened or nailed down to a chell: and they win* frequent his Mnjefty s ihips of war, beft know with what fpiiat and reib’.ution tlicfe encounters are can ici/ on.’*
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Gentlemans Magazine and Historical Chronicle
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Feb 01, 1791
Page 35
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