Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows,' the reports of muskets used in... The War in the Peninsula, and Wellington's Campaigns in France and Belgium ... - Page 230by Herbert R. Clinton - 1878 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...given up to the wild and desperate wickedness which tarnishes the lustre of the soldier's heroism. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from ;u bouses, the crashing of doors and windows, ™d the reports of muskets used in violence, raoonded... | |
| William Robson - Sieges - 1855 - 684 pages
...prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders, here all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. 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 reports of muskets used in... | |
| William Robson - Battles - 1871 - 802 pages
...prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders, here all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. 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 reports of muskets used in... | |
| Peninsular veteran - 1878 - 264 pages
...; and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, curses, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report... | |
| Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...were 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...timo to prevent a greater mirfortune. Shftmelesa rapacity, brutal Intemperance, savage last, crnelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans,...Imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, tin- cr.ishi-ig of doors unit windows, and the reports of musket* used in violi-uce. resounded lor... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pages
...the soldiers' heroism. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage cruelty, and murder-shrieks the dignity of your ancestors, and to vindicate your own; I call upon the spirit and huma houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for... | |
| sir William Maynard Gomm - 1881 - 442 pages
...attack all discipline seemed at an end, and Badajos suffered as terribly as any captured city ever has. 'Maddened by drink and revenge, the soldiers and the...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and pitcous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses,... | |
| Orators - 1881 - 710 pages
...in the words of a partial historian: "Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelly 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... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815 - 1882 - 314 pages
...prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows,' the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos.... | |
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