 Second, most of the streets were left in profound darkness. Thieves and robbers plied their trade with impunity : yet they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favorite amusement of dissolute young gentlemen...  Dollar Monthly Magazine - Page 2641865Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 pages
...Thieves and robbers plied their trade with impunity ; yet they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favorite...breaking windows, upsetting sedans, beating quiet men, and offering rude caresses to pretty women. Several dynasties of these tyrants had, since the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of dissolute young gentlemen to swagger...breaking windows, upsetting sedans, beating quiet men, and offering rude caresses to pretty women. Several dynasties of these tyrants had, since the... | |
 | Henry White - 1849 - 550 pages
...they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of dissolute young gentlemen to swagger...breaking windows, upsetting sedans, beating quiet men, and offering rude caresses to pretty women. Several dynasties of these tyrants had, since the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 850 pages
...they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of dissolute young gentlemen to swagger...breaking windows, upsetting sedans, beating quiet men, and offering rudecaresses to pretty women. Several dynasties of these tyrants had, since the Restoration,... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...they were har dly so terrible to peaceable citizens, as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of dissolute young gentlemen to swagger...about the town, breaking windows, upsetting sedans, heating quiet, and offering rude caresses to pretty women. The machinery for keeping the peace was... | |
 | 982 pages
...to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of young men, (or gentlemen ?), to swagger by night about the town, breaking windows, upsetting sedans, beating quiet men, and offering rude caresses to pretty women. But a great change took place in the last year of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 668 pages
...they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of dissolute young gentlemen to swagger...night about the town, breaking windows, upsetting sedaus, beating quiet men, and offering rude caresses to pretty women. Several dynasties of these tyrants... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 692 pages
...they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of dissolute young gentlemen to swagger...breaking windows, upsetting sedans. beating quiet men, and offering rude caresses to pretty women. Several dynasties of these tyrants had, since the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1877 - 738 pages
...they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of dissolute young gentlemen to swagger...breaking windows, upsetting sedans, beating quiet men, and offering rude caresses to pretty women. Several dynasties of these tyrants had, since the... | |
 | 1881 - 426 pages
...peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of dissolute younggentlemen to swagger by night about the town, breaking windows, upsetting sedans, beating quiet men, and offering rude caresses to pretty women. Several dynasties of these tyrantshad, since theRestoration,... | |
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