 If he has children, they are to be taken from him. If he has a profession, he is to be driven from it. He is cut by the higher orders, and hissed by the lower. He is, in truth, a sort of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors...  Critical and Historical Essays - Page 574by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 470 pages
...than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If he has children, they are to be taken from him....class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacriOce. If he has children, they are to be taken from him....the other transgressors of the same class are, it i* supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If he has children, they are to be taken from him. lf he has a profession, he is to be driven from it. He...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If he has children, they are to be taken from him....class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831 - 754 pages
...than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If he has children, they are to be taken from him....class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the liigh standard of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 pages
...than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If he has children they are to be taken from him....class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If he has children, they are to be taken from him....class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of... | |
 | 1844 - 354 pages
...hundreds whose offences have been treated with " lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice: he is in " truth a sort of whipping-boy, by whose...class are, it is supposed, " sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our " own severity, and compare with great pride the high stand" ard... | |
 | 1844 - 358 pages
...hundreds whose offences have been treated with " lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice : he is in " truth a sort of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies nil " the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, " sufficiently chastised. We reflect... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If he has children, they are to be taken from him. If lie has a profession, he is to be driven from it. He is cut by the higher orders, and hissed by the... | |
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