 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; and all was done by... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from their children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind...sword, and exile, they fell into " The jaws of Famine." The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; — and all was done... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - 1849 - 428 pages
...part were slaughtered, others without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or «icredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry — those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled ci ties but escaping fire and sword... | |
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; and all was done by... | |
 | Queen's University of Belfast - 1852 - 306 pages
...were in part slaughtered; others without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine For months together these creatures of suffering, whose very excess and luxury in their most plenteous... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; lathers ?X < 3H D Mͨ- D 6N {XM o:6y *` ... l ޙ 2 Z ԠC b k`DC f & r 2 P i O7 4] p driven aud the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 pages
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredncss of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. [Trinity College Fellowships, 1848.] 162. His conduct upon these occasions may be thought irrational.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands...from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amid the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped ¡na whirlwind of cavalry, and, amid the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in fin unknown und hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities,... | |
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A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness... 
