The School of Virtue; A Novel Volume . 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ...side, --for the diabolical usage Usage of duelling should, of all the lifts on record of barbarous chivalry, be the first that should be expunged, being repugnant both to the laws of God and man;--for what man of the least serious reflection, but must shudder at thethoughts of being hurried, in the very act of offence, in the real breach of the divine command, --before the throne of; a just offended God . "Is not this arr act of more heinous atrocity, than any of the wrongs for which a justiciary court has awarded judgment of death?--For in the latter, a time of repentance, .thro' grace, may be obtained, and a foundation of hope ascertained;--but in the former cafe, no such blessing can be promised;--it is a voluntary race to perform the works of the cruel enemy of souls, --cutting off the wretch from a means of obtaining peace and pardon, to sink into the abyss "of; of destruction --And in our view of thV crime it amounts to against the peaceful law of society, the calamity is truly great, --TMfor in this deluded notion offupporting the empty title of false honor, or. nominal heroism, the most worth less of the sons of Adam, may, if he is what is stiled a gentleman, that is to) fay, a man of property, call forth a mart. of integrity, worth, and respectability, who may perhaps have an amiable wife and several children, whose sole happlness depends upon the valuable lifeof this gentleman, and thro' the mis- taken notion of honor, upon the summons of this worthless character, be brought to an appointed spot, as you both are at this period, and by an exchange of fire, or a thrust of a sword this infatuated, yet amiable gentleman, is carried home on a bier, lifeless, to his. family I "The Villain escapes --boasts of his...