A view of society in Europe, in its progress from rudeness to refinement; or, inquiries concerning the history of law, government, and manners / By Gilbert Stuart.

  • Gilbert Stuart
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1778
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Credit: A view of society in Europe, in its progress from rudeness to refinement; or, inquiries concerning the history of law, government, and manners / By Gilbert Stuart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * et fit vir ille [provocans] eo deterior, quod verba 4 locutus eft, quae praeftare non aufus fit. Si jam 6 uterque comparent, juftis inftrufti armis, et cadat e provocatus, dimidio muldtae pretio [caedes] ex- * piator. Si vero provocans cadit, imputet teme- 4 ritati. Capitalis ei linguae fuae petulantia, jaceat 6 in campo inexpiatus.’ De Jure Sueonum et Gotho- rum vetufio, lib. i. c. 6. Among the ancient Germans, in the age of Ta¬ citus, the point of honour was carried fo high, that a gamefter having rifked and loft his liberty and perfon on the laft throw, fubmitted to voluntary fervitude, allowing himfelf, though flronger and younger than his antagonift, to be bound and fold by him. 6 Ea eft in re prava pervicacia ; ipfi jidem 6 vocant* Tacit, de Mor. Germ. c. 24. The other words of the paftage are : 6 Aleam quod mirere, 6 fobrii inter feria exercent, tanta lucrandi perden- 4 dive temeritate, ut cum omnia defecerunt, ex- 4 tremo ac novhfimo jadtu, de libertate et de cor- s pore contendant. Vidius voluntariam fervitutem * adit: quamvis junior, quatnvis robuftior, alligare 6 fe ae venire patitur.’ It is not foreign to the purpofes of this work, to remark, that the paflion for play followed the con- quefts of the barbarians; that many ordinances were made to fupprefs it; and that, to this hour, it is a point of honour to extinguifh game-debts. There
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