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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... "
Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ... - Page 328
by Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 360 pages
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

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...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...part were slaughtered : others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by...
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The Warrior's Looking Glass: Wherein is Shewn from Many High Authorities ...

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...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 3

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands...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...
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The Stranger: A Literary Paper ..., Volume 1

1813 - 458 pages
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacrcclness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, •were certainly liberal ; and all was done...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1815 - 746 pages
...part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly .liberal ; and all was done by...
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The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant ...

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...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 3

1821 - 510 pages
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. ' The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done...
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