 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 not...  Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 2581849Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 692 pages
...lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline...bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagogies knew no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupila. Husbands, of decent station,... | |
 | Edward Jeboult - 1873 - 394 pages
...lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline...knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands, of decent statten, were not ashamed to beat their wives. The implacability of hostile factions was such as we... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal - 1875 - 182 pages
...lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline...hostile factions was such as we can scarcely conceive. — Macanlay. 57. FIDELE. Fidele, the famous Swedish dog, was young and strong when his master died.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 510 pages
...lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline...habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues knew no wav of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands, of decent station, were not ashamed... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1878 - 562 pages
...severest chastisement to be given to boys ? It could have been only in times when (as Macaulay says) pedagogues knew no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupils', that such practices on the part of the head boys of a school could have been allowed. But the state... | |
 | James Moir - 1880 - 204 pages
...history or lighter literature of the 17th century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline of workshops, of schools, of families, though not more efficient than at present, was infinitely harsher. Masters, well-born and... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1880 - 200 pages
...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 families, though not more efficient than at present, was infinitely harsher. Masters, well born and... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 pages
...century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. 5. The discipline of workshops, of schools, of private...bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. 6. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - 478 pages
...lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline...beating their pupils. Husbands, of decent station, were riot ashamed to beat their wives. The implacability of hostile factions was such as we can scarcely... | |
 | Henry Codman Potter - 1897 - 362 pages
...lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline...not more efficient than at present, was infinitely harder. Masters, well born and bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues knew no... | |
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