| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 590 sivua
...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...purpose of seeing the wretched women who beat hemp there whipped.4 A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy... | |
| Albert Leffingwell - 1901 - 288 sivua
...AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION, at Pittsburgh, Pa., October 12, 19oo. give it him well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell...is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox. . . . The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime and disease. At the Assizes, the lean... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1901 - 732 sivua
...Bridewell on court days for the purpose of seeing the wretched women who beat hemp there whipped.4 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 favorite diversions of a large part of... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 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...for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining, excitea less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox. Fights compared with... | |
| Albert Leffingwell - 1907 - 290 sivua
...AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION, at Pittsburgh, Pa., October 12, 1900. give it him well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell...is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox. . . . The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime and disease. At the Assizes, the lean... | |
| Albert Leffingwell - 1908 - 272 sivua
...cart's tail, the crowd pressed round him, imploring the hangman to give it him 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 disease. At the Assizes, the lean... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 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...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 194 sivua
...Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched 15 women who beat hemp there whipped.4 A man pressed to death for refusing to plead^ a woman...with which a boxing match is a refined and humane 20 spectacle were among the favourite diversions of a large part of the town. Multitudes assembled... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 194 sivua
...seeing the wretched 15 women who beat hemp there whipped.4 A man pressed to death for refusing to pleadj a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy...with which a boxing match is a refined and humane 20 spectacle were among the favourite diversions of a large part of the town. Multitudes assembled... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 200 sivua
...the crowd pressed round him, imploring the hangman to give it the fellow well, and make him howl.3 Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell...court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched 15 women who beat hemp there whipped.4 A man pressed to death for refusing to plead) a woman burned... | |
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