 ... 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 of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives,...  Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann: His Britannic ... - Page 184by Horace Walpole - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...function; fathers torn from children, husbands frcm wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading, spears of drivers, and the trampling...captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were rb!e to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...function; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...function; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | George Beaumont - War - 1808 - 218 pages
...function; fathers torn fromchildren, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears, of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept iato captivity, in an nn- : known and hostile, land. Those who -were able to evade this tempest, fled... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pin-suing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and...land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled lo the walled cities. Bat escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1815 - 746 pages
...function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enreloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears' of drivers, and the trampling...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from 5re, sword] and exile, th-jy foil into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | Charles Butler - Church and state - 1821 - 538 pages
...tion ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, en" veloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading " spears of drivers, and the trampling...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the " walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, " they fell into the jaws of famine.... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. ' The... | |
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