Curious Punishments of Bygone Days (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508518488)

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 The subject is not a pleasant one, though it often has a humorous element; but a punishment that is obsolete gains an interest and dignity from antiquity and its history becomes endurable because it has a past only and no future.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.

Author: Alice Morse Earle
ISBN-10: 1508518483
ISBN-13: 9781508518488
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2015
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.17d