 | 1837 - 656 páginas
...then, often saw the unhappy victim of such barbarous work, brought out from the hospital three and four times to receive the remainder of his punishment,...look at the first blows : the feeling of horror which run through the ranks was evident, and all soldiers know the frequent faintings that take place among... | |
 | Henry Marshall - 1846 - 408 páginas
...to its severity. On these occasions it was terrible to see the new tender skin of the scarcelyhealed back again laid bare to receive the lash. I declare...place among recruits when they first see a soldier flogged. Some men evince great fortitude during punishment, and will endure 700 or 800 lashes without... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - 1889 - 756 páginas
...purpose of adding to its severity. 0" these occasions it was terrible to see the new tender skin of t!K scarcely healed back again laid bare to receive the...place among recruits when they first see a soldier flogged. Some commanders appear to have studied flogging as an art, with a view to the infliction of... | |
 | 1901 - 932 páginas
...this now. Its sentence cannot exceed two hundred lashes. I then often saw the unhappy victim of swch barbarous work brought out from the hospital three...place among recruits when they first see a soldier flogged." Some commanders appear to have studied flogging as an art, with a view to the infliction... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - 1889 - 752 páginas
...I then often saw the unhappy victim of such barbarous work brought out from the hospital three and four times to receive the remainder of his punishment,...place among recruits when they first see a soldier flogged. Some commanders appear to have studied flogging as an art, with a view to the infliction of... | |
 | George Ives - 1914 - 498 páginas
...this prolonged torture applied for the avowed purpose of adding to its severity. On these ocxasioni it was terrible to see the new tender skin of the...declare that, accustomed as I was to such scenes. 1 could not on these occasions bear to I x>k at the tint blows ; the feeling of horror which ran through... | |
 | Charles Milner Atkinson, John Edwin Mitchell - 1920 - 266 páginas
..." for the avowed purpose of adding "to its severity." "On these occasions," observed the General, " it was terrible to see the new, tender skin of the...that, accustomed as I was to such scenes, I could "not bear to look at the first blows."* Convulsed and screaming, whilst tortured with the cruel pain of... | |
 | 1844 - 664 páginas
...its severity. On these occasions it was terrible to see the new tender skin of the scarcely-healed back again laid bare to receive the lash. I declare...was to such scenes, I could not on these occasions ben to look at the first blows ; the feeling of horror which ran through the ranks was evident, —... | |
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I then often saw the unhappy victim of swch barbarous work brought out from the hospital three or four times to receive the remainder of his punishment, too severe to be borne without danger of death at one flogging ; and sometimes I have witnessed this... 