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See: character, humanity, mortality MAN. A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of
the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against
man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately
against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the
life of man come under the general name of homicide, which in our law
signifies the killing of a man by a man." Id. book 1, c. 8, s. 2.
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AND HOLD THEIR MANHOODS CHEAP WHILES ANY SPEAKS OF THOSE THAT DID THEIR PM THIS NIGHT BEFORE AND FOUGHT WITH US UPON SAINT CRISPIN'S DAY. For if he had not turned his back on Falstaff and everything Falstaff represents, he could never have become, as Henry V, the king who leads his men into a bloody battle at Agincourt by telling them that "gentlemen in England now abed/Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here/And hold their manhoods cheap. |
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