 | 1849 - 556 páginas
...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 over-driven ox. Fights, compared with which a boxing-match is a refined and humane spectacle, were among the favorite diversions of a large part... | |
 | 1849 - 542 páginas
...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 over.driven ox. Fights, compared with which a boxing-match is a refined and humane spectacle, were among the favorite diversions of a large part... | |
 | 1849 - 892 páginas
...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. I'ights, compared with which a boxing-match is a refined and humane spectacle, were among the favourite... | |
 | 1849 - 364 páginas
...the crowd pressed around him imploring the hangman to give it to the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell...sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an over driven ox. Fights, compared with which a boxing match is a refined and humane spectacle, were... | |
 | 1849 - 604 páginas
...sufferers were frightful to hear. It was in times that tolerated legal cruellies like these, — where a man, pressed to death for refusing to plead —...now felt for a galled horse, or an over-driven ox.* That those who had the making of laws for the navy, from which our own have derived much of their letter... | |
 | 1849 - 606 páginas
...hear. It was in times that tolerated legal cruellies like these, — where a man, pressed to deatli for refusing to plead — a woman burned for coining...now felt for a galled horse, or an over-driven ox.* That those who had the making of laws for the navy, from which our own have derived much of their letter... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 páginas
...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...seeing the wretched women who beat hemp there whipped, f A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy than... | |
 | House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1855 - 176 páginas
...decent station were not ashamed to beat their wives. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, or a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy...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." The reader must acknowledge... | |
 | 1855 - 448 páginas
...Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on eourt days, for the purpose of seeing the wretehed women who beat hemp there, whipped. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for eoining, exeited less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse, or au overdriven ox. Fights, eompared... | |
 | 1855 - 228 páginas
...the erowd pressed around him, imploring the hangman to give it the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretehed women who beat hemp there, whipped. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman... | |
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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... 
