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, and the reports of muskets used... The True Grandeur of Nations: an Oration Delivered Before the Authorities of ... - Página 13por Charles Sumner - 1845 - 104 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 páginas
...all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel....from my sleep with horror, a cold dew covered my f fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
| Peninsular veteran - 1878 - 264 páginas
...cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, curses, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...violence, resounded for two days and nights in the devoted town. Five thousand men and officers fell during the siege ; and of these, including seven... | |
| Herbert R. Clinton - 1878 - 528 páginas
...themselves up to the gratification of their demoniacal passions. " 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, and the reports of muskets used... | |
| Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1879 - 392 páginas
...all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. 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, and the reports of muskets used... | |
| Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 páginas
...cruelty, and murder, shrieks and D!teous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos !... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 páginas
...timo to prevent a greater mirfortune. Shftmelesa rapacity, brutal Intemperance, savage last, crnelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts. Imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, tin- cr.ishi-ig of doors unit windows, and the reports of musket* used... | |
| English history - 1881 - 888 páginas
...all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. 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, and the reports of muskets used... | |
| Sir William Maynard Gomm - 1881 - 440 páginas
...themselves up to the gratification of their demoniacal passions. 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, and the reports of muskets used... | |
| sir William Maynard Gomm - 1881 - 442 páginas
...cruelty and murder, shrieks and pitcous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence resounded,' Napier says, ' throughout the town. The officers vainly... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 606 páginas
...all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. 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 crashingof doors and windows, the reports of muskets used in violence,... | |
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