THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.
GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
BY
HENRY M. BROOKS
Some Strange and Curious
Puniſhments
"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."—Emerson
BOSTON
TICKNOR AND COMPANY
1886
Copyright, 1886,
By Ticknor and Company.
All rights reserved.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
For others' good, and melt at others' woe.
Pope:Odyssey.
But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things.
Wordsworth.
PUNISHMENTS MENTIONED.
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