Date: w. 1774-6, 1921
"As to the brutes it [whipping] inflicts no wound on their mind, whose Natures seem made to bear it, and whose sufferings are not attended with shame or pain beyond the present moment."
preview | full record— Schaw, Janet (c. 1731-c. 1801)
Date: 1808
"She'd touch the callous mind, unus'd to feel, / With savage virtue, and the lawless zeal"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)