| 1834 - 614 páginas
...readiness pushed through the town to the drawbridge ere they had time to organise further resistance. " Now commenced that wild and desperate wickedness which...shrieks, and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, and imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows,... | |
| Memoirs - 1835 - 460 páginas
...stop the violence ; but the madness of ungovernable licentiousness generally prevailed; and as 170 the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful...shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, curses, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports... | |
| 1840 - 844 páginas
...wild and desperate wickedness, which tarnished the lustre of the soldier's heroism. All indeed urn not alike, for hundreds risked and many lost their...from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, arid the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two dnys and nights in the streets of Badajos... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1845 - 108 páginas
...a splendid victory !" Life of Wilberforce, IV. 256, 261. * Alison, Hist. of French Rev. VIII. 114. savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1846 - 42 páginas
...enacted again, with added atrocities. Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : ' Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1846 - 112 páginas
...enacted again with added atrocities. Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : " Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
| 1846 - 910 páginas
...the words of a partial historian [Napier] : " Shameless rapacity, brntel intemperance, savage fust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
| Terence McMahon Hughes - 1847 - 488 páginas
...obliged to retire to escape being shot by the brutalized soldiers. " Shameless rapacity/' says Napier, " brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 864 páginas
...were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, i-brieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, retounded for... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 páginas
...again enacted with added atrocities. Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : " Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
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