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... effect in many instances was magical , for crime disappeared along with the lash . Public opinion was brought to bear upon the infamy of the practice , and now , with one tithe or less of the cruelty , we have in a tenfold degree a ...
... effect in many instances was magical , for crime disappeared along with the lash . Public opinion was brought to bear upon the infamy of the practice , and now , with one tithe or less of the cruelty , we have in a tenfold degree a ...
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... effect of the second flogging . I never learned whether he ultimately recovered . Any summary form of death that could be inflicted would have been no more than such a ruffian richly deserved , but , in a Christian land , not such a ...
... effect of the second flogging . I never learned whether he ultimately recovered . Any summary form of death that could be inflicted would have been no more than such a ruffian richly deserved , but , in a Christian land , not such a ...
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... effects of discussion , from the observation that since that time , though corporal punishment has diminished a hundred , perhaps a thousand - fold , discipline has decidedly im- proved , and the soldier treated like a rational being ...
... effects of discussion , from the observation that since that time , though corporal punishment has diminished a hundred , perhaps a thousand - fold , discipline has decidedly im- proved , and the soldier treated like a rational being ...
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... effect is immediate , for the old maxim of bis dat qui cito dat is still more applicable to punishments than to rewards . When I was surgeon of the 67th Regiment , in the St. Domingo war , I saw companies ' courts - martial practised ...
... effect is immediate , for the old maxim of bis dat qui cito dat is still more applicable to punishments than to rewards . When I was surgeon of the 67th Regiment , in the St. Domingo war , I saw companies ' courts - martial practised ...
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... effect upon the brain . It cannot fail , besides , to deteriorate the sight , from the pressure of congested blood upon the optic nerve , and the stock would seem to be preserved only for the purpose of generating a tendency to all ...
... effect upon the brain . It cannot fail , besides , to deteriorate the sight , from the pressure of congested blood upon the optic nerve , and the stock would seem to be preserved only for the purpose of generating a tendency to all ...
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