The Private Soldier

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Johnson and Son, and sold by all booksellers, 1834 - 176 sider

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Side 116 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Side 152 - Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law: and of all sorts of tyranny, the forcing of the letter of the Law against the equity, is the most insupportable ".—Sir R.
Side 156 - ... what sort of cats were used when flogging was first introduced into the Army, but they are now, I believe, very different in different regiments, and, indeed, there is sometimes, a variety kept in the same corps. Those which I have seen, and...
Side 154 - Numbers of them were taken down and carried from the square in a state of utter insensibility. The spectacle, altogether, instead of operating as an example to others, created disgust and abhorrence in the breast of every soldier present who was worthy of the name of man.
Side 155 - After a poor fellow had received about 100 lashes, the blood would pour down his back in streams, and fly about in all directions with every additional blow of the cat, so that by the time he had received 300, I have found my clothes all over blood from the knees to the crown of the head. Horrified at my disgusting appearance, I have, immediately after parade, run into the barrack-room, to escape from the observations of the soldiers, and to rid my clothes and person of my comrade's blood.
Side 72 - POLITENESS is the just medium between form and rudeness. It is the consequence of a benevolent nature, which shows itself to general acquaintance in an obliging, unconstrained civility, as it does to more particular ones in distinguished acts of kindness. This good nature must be directed by a justness of sense, and a quickness of discernment, that knows how to use every opportunity of exercising it, and to proportion the instances of it to every character and situation. It is a restraint laid by...
Side 154 - ... thousand lashes were not of themselves a sufficiently awful sentence without so cruel and unnecessary a prolongation of misery. Many of these poor creatures fainted several times, but having been restored to their senses by medicinal application, the moment they could move their heads the castigation was recommenced in all its rigour. Numbers of them were taken down and carried from the square in a state of utter insensibility. The spectacle, altogether, instead of operating...
Side 155 - From the very first day I entered the service as Drum-boy, and for eight years after, I can venture to assert, that, at the lowest calculation, it was my disgusting duty to flog men at least three times a week. From this painful task there was no possibility of shrinking, without the certainty of a rattan over my own shoulders by the Drum-Major, or of my being sent to the blackhole. When the infliction is ordered to commence, each Drum-boy, in rotation, is ordered to strip, for the purpose of administering...
Side 147 - I would ask those who argue that the minds of common soldiers are barren and uncultivated, and hence, more callous than those of the more enlightened, — I would ask the advocates for corporal punishment, a few simple questions. Have they served in the ranks, and mixed and lived in social friendship with the private soldiers of our country ? Have they ever sat at the bedside of a flogged man, and witnessed the agony of his heart, and the distraction of his mind ? Have they ever heard the unintimidated...
Side 144 - ... two rent the air. — They flew into each other's arms, clung together and when they were torn asunder, the tear of pity started to the eyes of all around. The little fellow received every lash to which he had been sentenced ; and in little more than a year after there were not two greater rebrobates or vagabonds in the whole corps.

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