 ... .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...  The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete - Página 329por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 páginas
...it the fellow well, and make him howl.J Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women...spectacle, were among the favourite diversions of a largo part of the town. Multitudes assembled to see gladiators hack each other to pieces with deadly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 páginas
...describes such a scene in lines which I do not venture to quote. of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women...is a refined and humane spectacle, were among the favorite diversions of a large part of the town. Multitudes assembled to see gladiators hack each other... | |
 | 1849 - 546 páginas
...it the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women...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
...it the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women...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
...it the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women...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
...to the fellow well, and make him howl. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 páginas
...it the fellow well, and make him howl.f Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women...burned for coining, excited less sympathy than is now £jlt for a galled horse or an over-driven ox. Fights, compared with which a boxing-match is a refined... | |
 | 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 fellow well, and make him howl.*** Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of 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... | |
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