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Excerpt from Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism: Containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note From the Time of Broughton and Slack, Down to the Present Day; Interspersed With Anecdotes of All the Celebrated Pugilists of This Country IT has ever licen allowed, even by that sect 'of phi losophe'rs, who with so much sublimit y have argued the perfectability of man, and the ultimate establish ment of the umpian government; that human nature is so constituted as to require'both bodily and mental recreation. This propensity tr; amusement in man, is sufficiently prov ed by the generality of the llesine, in every stage of life, and under every variety of cli mate and constitution of government. But the re gulation of this apparently instinctive impulse of man differs greatly according to the circumstances under which he is placed. The influence of moral and poli tical, even exclusive of physical causes, tend much to diversify the Sports of mankind; the latter in par ticular may be very readily conceived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.