 | 1885 - 980 sivua
...tail, the crowd pressed round him, imploring the hangman to give it the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell...now felt for a galled horse or an over-driven ox. . . . The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime and of every disease. At the assizes... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1873 - 244 sivua
...Lincoln's Inn Fields. As little mercy was shown by the populace to the sufferers of a humble rank. . . . A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman...now felt for a galled horse or an over-driven ox. . . . The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime and of every disease; . . . but on... | |
 | Edward Jeboult - 1873 - 394 sivua
...Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to gaol on court-days for the purpose of seeing a wretched woman who beat hemp there whipped. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coming, excited less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox. Fights compared... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 sivua
...the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on courtdays for the purpose of seeing the wretched women who beat...or an overdriven ox. Fights, compared with which a boxing-match is a refined and humane spectacle, were among the favorite diversions of a large part... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1882 - 318 sivua
...has ripened, and that we have in the course of ages become not only a wiser but a kinder people. ... A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman...now felt for a galled horse or an over-driven ox. ... The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime and of every disease. But on all this... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1882 - 296 sivua
...that we have in the course of ages become not only a wiser but a kinder people. ... A man pressed toa death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining,...now felt for a galled horse or an over-driven ox. ... The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime and of every disease. But on all this... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 sivua
...was infinitely harsher. Masters, well born and bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. 6. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman...or an overdriven ox. Fights, compared with which a boxing-match is a refined and humane spectacle, were among the favourite diversions of a large part... | |
 | 1885 - 980 sivua
...tail, the crowd pressed round him, imploring the hangman to give it the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell...of seeing the wretched women who beat hemp there, A PHASE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. whipped. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage - 1889 - 944 sivua
...station were not ashamed to beat their wives. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women who beat hemp there whipped. It was not until 1817 that the public whipping of woman wa« abolished In England.— Ibid. Woman,... | |
 | Henry Codman Potter - 1897 - 362 sivua
...the crowd pressed round him, imploring the hangman to give it the fellow well, and make Viim howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell...now felt for a galled horse or an over-driven ox. ... The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime and of every disease. At the assizes... | |
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... .Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women who beat hemp there whipped. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy than is now... 
