Legislators proposed new punishments of terrible severity for this new atrocity.

[193] It was not however found necessary to resort to those punishments.

The fashion changed; and during the last century and a half there has perhaps not been a single instance of this particular kind of wickedness.
The explanation is simple.

Oates was the founder of a school.

His success proved that no romance is too wild to be received with faith by understandings which fear and hatred have disordered.