 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | George Beaumont - War - 1808 - 218 pages
...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 pages
...field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their naming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without...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
...inhabitants flying from their 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... | |
 | Peace - 1821 - 388 pages
...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...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of^drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile... | |
 | Charles Butler - Autobiography - 1822 - 706 pages
...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, hus" bands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and " amidst the goading spears of drivers,... | |
 | Charles Butler - Authors, English - 1824 - 368 pages
...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...the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into cap tivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those, who were able to erade this tempest, fled to the... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 372 pages
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sar redness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands...the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into cap tivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those, who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Authors, English - 1825 - 368 pages
...enveloped in a " whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the " goading spears of drivers, and the tram" pling of pursuing horses, were swept into " captivity in...hostile land. " Those, who were able to evade this tem" pest, fled to the walled cities. But es" caping from fire, sword, and exile, they " fell into... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex to -age, to rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to N the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
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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... 
