... 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,... India, Ancient and Modern, Geographical, Historical, Political, Social, and ... - Page 223by David Oliver Allen - 1856 - 618 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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 of...cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly... | |
| 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 of...cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly... | |
| George Beaumont - War - 1808 - 218 pages
...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...cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, nhgy: fell into the jaws of famine. , For eighteen months, without intermission,' this destruction... | |
| 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 of...cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enreloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears' of drivers, and the trampling...tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from 5re, sword] and exile, th-jy foil into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful... | |
| 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 of...cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly... | |
| Charles Butler - Church and state - 1821 - 538 pages
...fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, en" veloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading " spears of drivers, and the trampling...cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, " they fell into the jaws of famine. " For eighteen monilis, without intermission, this destruc" tion raged... | |
| 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 of...cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. ' The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were cerlainly... | |
| Peace - 1821 - 388 pages
...husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of^drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into...cities ; but escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. For eighteen months, without intermiesion, this destruction raged from... | |
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