 So general was the practice, and so all-pervading was the duel mania, that the peaceful shades of our university could not escape it. Not only students adopted the practice, but the principal and fellows set the example. The Honourable J. Hely Hutchinson,...  Ireland Sixty Years Ago - Page 25by John Edward Walsh - 1851 - 155 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Edward Walsh - Ireland - 1847 - 224 pages
...him, because he said "he would as soon break an oath as swallow a poached egg." The combatants were so inveterate, that they actually discharged four brace...Pranceriana* as a fencing-master, trampling on Newton's Principia, while he makes a lunge. He set the example of duelling to his pupils, by challenging and... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd, John Nyren - 1852 - 626 pages
...and shot him through the arm. ' So general was the practice, and so all-pervading was the duel-mania, that the peaceful shades of our university could not...defence, for which he wished to endow a professorship. He set the example of duelling to his pupils, by challenging and fighting Doyle, a master in Chancery... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 370 pages
...and shot him through the arm. ' So general was the practice, and so all-pervading was the duel-mania, that the peaceful shades of our university could not...but the principal and fellows set the example. The Honorable J. Hely Hutchinson, the provost, introduced, among other innovations on the quiet retreats... | |
 | 1854 - 426 pages
...and shot him through the arm. ' So general was the practice, and so all-pervading was the duel-mania, that the peaceful shades of our university could not...defence, for which he wished to endow a professorship. He set the example of duelling to his pupils, by challenging and fighting Doyle, a master in Chancery... | |
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