Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 47
arely happened, the com-batants as a rule retiring from the arena dreadfully disfiguredand sometimes disabled for life. The pitiful state in which they were often left wouldhave moved hearts of stone ; but the poets, the men whoas a rule grow tender fi-equently on very slight occasion,were not… … Children Fighting. (From a carving in the Florence Museum.) to excite pity for the vanquished as to record the feats ofstrength performed by the conquerors.
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