 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 lehte
...Thofe who were able to evade this tempeft, fled to the walled cities. But efcaping from fire, fword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private... | |
 | 1795 - 432 lehte
...respect of xank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands frcm wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading,...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 lehte
...Thofe who were able to evade this tempeft, fled to the walled cities. But efcaping from fire, fword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 474 lehte
...Thofe who were able to evade this tempeft, fled to the walled cities. But efcaping from fire, fword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, gency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 464 lehte
...Thofe who were able to evade this tempeft, fled to the walled cities. But efcaping from fire, fword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, .ge»cy, were certainly liberal; and all was done by charity... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 lehte
...respect ol rank, oy sacredness 6f function; fathers torn fromchildren, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...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 lehte
...respect of rank, or sacredness of 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 pin-suing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 lehte
...respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enreloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...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... | |
 | 1821 - 522 lehte
...respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were cerlainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private charity could do ; but it was a people... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1821 - 538 lehte
...of rank, or sacredness of func" tion ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, en" veloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...sword, and exile, " they fell into the jaws of famine. " For eighteen monilis, without intermission, this destruc" tion raged from the gates of Madras to... | |
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... 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 of function, fathers torn... 
