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" ... expiatory sacrifice. If he has children, they are to be taken from him. If he has a profession, he is to be driven from it. He is cut by the higher orders, and hissed by the lower." He is, in truth, a sort of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies,... "
The True Story of Lord & Lady Byron - Page 131
edited by - 1869 - 189 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 53

1831 - 738 pages
...of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies, all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very...length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-hroken. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. It is clear that those vices...
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Venetia, Issue 33

Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1837 - 502 pages
...sort of whipping boy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. These observations of a celebrated writer apply to the instance of Lord Cadurcis ; he was the periodical...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies, all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very...It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happi' ness ought to be as much as possible repressed. It is equally clear that they cannot be repressed...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies, all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very...the high standard of morals established in England, wiih the Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken. And...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 16

American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...sort of whipping-boy, by wnose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very...length, our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and broken-hearted. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more." Macaulay's style is of...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...sort of whippingboy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it e hands of their brides. Though nothing could be more...possessed, in a far greater degree than their adversari iu England, with the Parisian, laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken....
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 16

1849 - 588 pages
...sort of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it have received from historians a very scanty measure...regulation nor by physical force. Moral causes noiselessly broken-hearted. And our virtue goes quietly to sieep for seven years more." Macaulay's style is of...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...sort of whippingboy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very...heart-broken. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven year» more. It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much as possible...
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Venetia, Volume 1

Benjamin Disraeli - 1858 - 1044 pages
...other transgressors of die same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect Tery complacently on our own severity, and compare, with...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. These observations of a celebrated writer, apply to the instance of Lord Cadurcis; he was the periodical...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...whippingboy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is sup* posed, I7 M)_ Dz R#% * wq e @} " b E M/ִ 3,U. | ... T X u / 4 rVyvW i l : uo Q q ) : ! " oar anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep...
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