The Fencer's Guide; Being a Series of Every Branch Required to Compose a Complete System of Defence, Etc |
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advance adverfary's adverſary againſt alfo alſo baſket batter body Cavè cloſe cut infide cut outfide defend difarm difengage a Quarte DITTO double Round falute fame Quarte fecond Feint in Quarte feint infide feint outfide feint Quarte fhell fhould fide fimple fingle firft firſt flide flip Foible Foil fome fpring back ftand ftill fuch fword gonde Guard in Quarte Guard in Quarte-over-the-arm half thruſt Half-Circle Hanging Guard infide Guard infide the face leffons left foot left hand Low Quarte Meaſure Medium motion muft muſt Obferve Octave once round oppofe Oppofition oppoſe otherwiſe outfide Guard over-the-arm parry a Quarte pofition Prime Quarte-over Quarte-over-the Quinte raiſe recover repoft Reprifal right foot right forward Round Parade Round Quarte Round Tierce SECT Segonde ſhell Sixieme Spadroon ſtand Stand on Guard ſtill the-arm theſe thruft thruſt a Quarte thrust Quarte Traverſe turn your wrift uſe whip wrench wriſt yourſelf
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Page iii - Horse, Dragoons, and Light Horse, or Hussars, with some necessary Precautions and an Index, explaining every term of that Art throughout the book. The Whole being carefully collected from long Experience and Speculation, is calculated as a Vade-Mecum for Gentlemen of tbe Army, Navy, Universities, &°c.
Page iii - Knowledge of that Weapon, as may be very applicable to the Use of any other that a Man can lawfully carry in his hand. Part IV is a compound of the Three former, explaining and teaching the Cut and...
Page iii - The Fencer's Guide, being a Series of every branch required to compose a Complete System of Defence, Whereby the Admirers of Fencing are gradually led from the First Rudiments of that Art, through the most complicated...
Page iii - Use of any other that a Man can lawfully carry in his hand. Part IV is a compound of the Three former, explaining and teaching the Cut and Thrust, or Spadroon Play, and that in a more subtile and accurate manner than ever appeared in Print.