 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - 548 pages
...function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wive*, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, ami amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to walled cities. But escaping from fire, hword.and exile, they fell into the jaus of famine." In a letter... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 904 pages
...flaming villages, in part, were slaughtered ; Others without regard to sex, to age or rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were EUROPEAN ELOQUENCE. ]73 swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 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...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of driven and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land.... | |
 | William Dobson - 1845 - 204 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...and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. Burke, Speech on the Nabob of Arcofs Debts. WEDNESDAY, December 10. Into Greek Prose. As soon as the design... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 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... | |
 | 1845 - 554 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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...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...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...\ in part, were slaughtered ; [function, without regard to sea;, to age, or rank, or sacredness of fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped...cities. / But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fe 1 1 - into the jaws of famine. For eighteen months, \ without intermission , this destruction raged... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 pages
...flaming villages, in part, were slaughtered ; others without regard to sex, to age or rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading apears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and... | |
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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... 
