 | English literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline of workshops, ' of schools, of private...their wives. The implacability of hostile factions woa ' such as we can scarcely conceive. Whigs were disposed to ' murmur because Stafford was suffered... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 464 pages
...of private fami• The deaths were 23,222. — Petty's Political Arithmetic. VOL. I.— 37 2 B lies, though not more efficient than at present, was infinitely...decent station, were not ashamed to beat their wives. Tlie implacability of hostile factions was such as we can scarcely conceive. Whigs were disposed to... | |
 | 1849 - 364 pages
...century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline of workshops, of schools, of private...present, was infinitely harsher. Masters, well born ahd bred, were in tbe habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues knew no way of imparting knowledge... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1887 - 678 pages
...(Dalton's ' Justice,' 1655, cap. 72, p. 204) ; and Macanlay states that in the seventeenth century masters, well born and bred, were in the habit of beating their servants (' History of England,' edit.' Works,' 8 vols., 1876, vol. i. chap. iii. p. 331). A modern text-book... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1855 - 556 pages
...not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The disci• pline of workshops, of schools, of private families, though...knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands, of decent sta- , tion, were not ashamed to beat their wives. The implacability of hostile factions was such as... | |
 | 1855 - 228 pages
...that our aneestors were less humane than their posterity. The diseipline of workshops, of sehools, of private families, though not more efficient than...bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagognes knew no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands, of decent station,... | |
 | 1855 - 448 pages
...infinitely harsher. Masters, well horn and bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagognes knew no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands, of deeent station, were not ashamed to beat their wives. The implaeability of hostile faetions was sueh... | |
 | George Washington Quinby - Almshouses - 1856 - 342 pages
...century, which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline of work-shops, of schools, of private...the habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues knew of no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands of decent station were not ashamed... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. 4. The discipline of work-shops, of schools, of private...hostile factions was such as we can scarcely conceive. As little mercy was shown by the populace to sufferers of a humbler rank. If an offender was put into... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. 4. The discipline of work-shops, of schools, of private...bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues11 knew no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands of decent station... | |
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There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline of workshops, ' of schools, of private families, though... 
