Curious Punishments of Bygone Days

Nonfiction, History, World History, European General
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Author: Alice Morse Earle ISBN: 1230000351690
Publisher: True North Publication: April 10, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Alice Morse Earle
ISBN: 1230000351690
Publisher: True North
Publication: April 10, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

The subject is not a pleasant one, though it often has a humorous element; but a punishment that is obsolete gains an interest and dignity from antiquity and its history becomes endurable because it has a past only and no future. That men were pilloried and women ducked by our law-abiding forbears rouses a thrill of hot indignation which dies down into a dull ember of curiosity when we reflect that they will never be pilloried or ducked again.

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The subject is not a pleasant one, though it often has a humorous element; but a punishment that is obsolete gains an interest and dignity from antiquity and its history becomes endurable because it has a past only and no future. That men were pilloried and women ducked by our law-abiding forbears rouses a thrill of hot indignation which dies down into a dull ember of curiosity when we reflect that they will never be pilloried or ducked again.

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