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... The advanced grammar of school-grammars - Página 144de C. Duxbury - 1884 - 264 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1795 - 432 páginas
...to age, to the respect of xank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands frcm wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst...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 - 1807 - 458 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 páginas
...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...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... | |
| George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 páginas
...regard to sex, to age, to the respect ol rank, oy sacredness 6f function; fathers torn fromchildren, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry,...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 páginas
...from their naming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from...the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pin-suing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to... | |
| 1813 - 458 páginas
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacrcclness 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 Cobbett - 1815 - 746 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 páginas
...flaming villages, in part were slaughtered s others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enreloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears' of drivers, and the trampling of... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 páginas
...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...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... | |
| 1821 - 522 páginas
...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...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. ' The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were cerlainly liberal ; and all was done... | |
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