 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...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... | |
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1803 - 474 pages
...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 - France - 1803 - 464 pages
...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 - War - 1808 - 218 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Church and state - 1821 - 538 pages
...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... 
