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The Review of English Studies 1996 XLVII(187):331-351; doi:10.1093/res/XLVII.187.331
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‘BRITISH CHAMPIONISM’ EARLY PUGILISM AND THE WORKS OF FIELDING

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON

BRITONS then who boast themselves Inheritors of the Greek and Roman Virtues, should follow their example, and by encouraging Conflicts of this magnammous Kind, endeavour to eradicate that foreign Effeminacy which has so fatally insinuated itself among us, and almost destroyed that glorious spirit of British Championism, which was wont to be at once the Terror and Desgrace of our Enemies


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