THE CODE OF HONOR. ITS RATIONALE AND USES, BY THE TESTS OF COMMON SENSE AND GOOD MORALS, WITH THE EFFECTS OF ITS PREVENTIVE REMEDIES. SECOND EDITION, REVISED

[Wilson, John Lyde? Quintero, J.A.?]

Published by E.A. Brandao & Co., Print, 34 Magazine Street, New Orleans, 1883

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42pp, stitched in original printed wrappers. Wrappers dusted, else a lightly toned but clean text. Good+. Some institutions listed on OCLC attribute authorship to one J.A. Quintero. My humble efforts have not confirmed or rebutted that claim. Neither his name [nor that of any other author] appears in this pamphlet, which sets forth in punctilious detail the proper way for gentlemen to schedule or avert a duel. "The Code of Honor consists of rules for the government of gentlemen involved in such personal grievances. It is a digest of approved usages. It has the sanction of time and experience, and derives its authority from custom, among the refined, in the most enlightened nations, during several centuries, to this day. It is for civilized communities, and prevails among men of gentle manners. It therefore, recognizes no necessity for gentlemen to wear concealed weapons, and gives no countenance to that barbarous and homicidal practice. It urges, that an insult in public, by word or behavior, should not be resented there; and that a good quarrel will always keep for appropriate settlement." OCLC 10683349 [11] as of December 2021.

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• Title: THE CODE OF HONOR. ITS RATIONALE AND USES, BY THE TESTS OF COMMON SENSE AND GOOD MORALS, WITH THE EFFECTS OF ITS PREVENTIVE REMEDIES. SECOND EDITION, REVISED
• Publisher: E.A. Brandao & Co., Print, 34 Magazine Street, New Orleans
• Publication Date: 1883
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