 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 192 páginas
...wiser, but also a kinder people. There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter litera- 30 ture of the seventeenth century which does not contain...present, was infinitely harsher. Masters, well born 35 and bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues knew no way of imparting knowledge... | |
 | Needham (Mass.) - 1913 - 324 páginas
...faster in the lanes of our towns than they now die on the coast of Guiana. . . . There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not 152] EXERCISES IN TOWN HALL — CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS contain some proof that our ancestors were less... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 832 páginas
...have, in the course of ages, become, not only a wiser, but also a kinder people. There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter literature of the seventeenth...no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their * The deaths were 23,222. — Petty's Political Arithmetic. State of England in 1685 327 pupils. Husbands,... | |
 | Chester Noyes Greenough, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1917 - 422 páginas
...derived from the mollifying influence of civilization on the national character. I. There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter literature of the seventeenth...our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. A. The discipline of workshops, of schools, of private families, though not more efficient than at... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 páginas
...in the course of ages, be- 10 come, not only a wiser, but also a kinder people. There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter literature of the seventeenth...workshops, of schools, of private families, though 15 not more efficient than at present, was infinitely harsher. Masters, well born and bred, were in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 1026 páginas
...have, in the course of ages, become, not only a wiser, but also a kinder people. There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter literature of the seventeenth...present, was infinitely harsher. Masters, well born and hred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues knew no way of imparting knowledge but... | |
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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... 
