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- Author: Alice Morse Earle
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 80
- ISBN-10: 1508518483
- ISBN-13: 9781508518488
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Curious Punishments of Bygone Days is a classic history text by Alice Morse Earle. The subject is not a pleasant one, though it often has a humorous element; but a punishment that is obsolete gains an interest and dignity from antiquity and its history becomes endurable because it has a past only and no future.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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- Author: Alice Morse Earle
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 80
- ISBN-10: 1508518483
- ISBN-13: 9781508518488
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Curious Punishments of Bygone Days is a classic history text by Alice Morse Earle. The subject is not a pleasant one, though it often has a humorous element; but a punishment that is obsolete gains an interest and dignity from antiquity and its history becomes endurable because it has a past only and no future.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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