Speeches on Social and Political Subjects: Military floggingRichard Griffin, 1857 - Great Britain |
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... character in its effects , and ill calculated to attain the great ends of all penal infliction , the re- formation of the offender , and the prevention of other offences by the force of example . Several tracts had been published ...
... character in its effects , and ill calculated to attain the great ends of all penal infliction , the re- formation of the offender , and the prevention of other offences by the force of example . Several tracts had been published ...
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... character so degraded . We once heard of an army of slaves , which had bravely withstood the swords of their masters , being defeated and dispersed by the bare shaking of the instrument of flagel- lation in their faces . This brought so ...
... character so degraded . We once heard of an army of slaves , which had bravely withstood the swords of their masters , being defeated and dispersed by the bare shaking of the instrument of flagel- lation in their faces . This brought so ...
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... character of our countrymen in Portugal , when we contemplate their meeting the bayonets of Massena's troops ; but we must own that we should tremble for the result , were the French general to despatch against them a few hundred ...
... character of our countrymen in Portugal , when we contemplate their meeting the bayonets of Massena's troops ; but we must own that we should tremble for the result , were the French general to despatch against them a few hundred ...
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... character , insomuch that there is not only no personage so important or exalted , - for of that I do not complain , but no person so humble , harmless , and retired , as to escape the de- famation which is daily and hourly poured forth ...
... character , insomuch that there is not only no personage so important or exalted , - for of that I do not complain , but no person so humble , harmless , and retired , as to escape the de- famation which is daily and hourly poured forth ...
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... characters , does derive no small apology from the insatiable love of publicity which preys upon a great part of the community ; leading them scarcely to value existence itself , if it is not passed in the eyes of the world , and to ...
... characters , does derive no small apology from the insatiable love of publicity which preys upon a great part of the community ; leading them scarcely to value existence itself , if it is not passed in the eyes of the world , and to ...
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