 | David Hume - 1776 - 496 pages
...turn. In vain was recourfe had to relations, to companions, to friends : All connexions were diflblved, and death was dealt by that hand, from which protection...implored and expected. Without provocation, without oppofition, the aftonifhed Englifh, living in profound peace and full fecurity, were maffacred by their... | |
 | World history - 1783 - 458 pages
...vain was recourfe had to relations, to companions, to former friends ; all connections were diffolved, and death was dealt by that hand, from which protection was implored and expected. The molt wanton cruelties were inflicted on thofe innocent fufferers. The very avarice of the revolters... | |
 | John Curry - Ireland - 1793 - 438 pages
...let loofe, and met the hunted victims at every turn; that all connections were difiblved, and that death was dealt by that hand from which protection was implored and expected." In fhort, " that without provocation, without oppofition," the ' Hift. of England, Dub. ed. vol. iv.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1803 - 498 pages
...condition, nor sex was spared. The dearest ties were torn asunder, without pity and without remorse, and death was dealt by that hand, from which protection was implored and expected. Simple death, however, was a mercy from the Irish barbarians. All the tortures which wanton cruelty... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 504 pages
...confounded in one common ruin. In vain did flight save from the first assault: Destruction was, every where, let loose, and met the hunted victims at every turn....provocation, without opposition, the astonished English, living in profound peace and full security, were massacred by their nearest neighbours, with whom they... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pages
...circumftances .>f unequalled barbarity. No age, fex, or condition, was fpared. All connections «ere diflolved, and death was dealt by that hand from which protection was implored and expected. All the tortures which wanton cruelty could devife, all the lingering pains of body, the anguiih of... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...let loose, and met the hunted victims at every turn ; that ajl connections were dissolved, and that death was dealt by that hand from which protection was implored and expected." In short, " that without provocation, •without opposition,* the astonished English were massacred... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 604 pages
...confounded in one common ruin. In vain did flight save from the first assault: Destruction was, every where, let loose, and met the hunted victims at every turn....provocation, without opposition, the astonished English, living in profound peace and full security, were massacred by their nearest neighbours, with whom they... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 504 pages
...confounded in one common ruin. In vain did flight save from the first assault: destruction was every where let loose, and met the hunted victims at every turn....provocation, without opposition, the astonished English, living in profound peace and full security, were massacred by their nearest neighbours, with whom they... | |
 | the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...assault ; destruction was every where let loose, and met the hunted victims at every turn. In vuin was recourse had to relations, to companions, to friends...and full security, were massacred by their nearest neighbours, with whom they had long upheld a continued intercourse of kindness and good offices. But... | |
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In vain was recourse had to relations, to companions, to friends : all connexions were dissolved, and death was dealt by that hand from which protection was implored and expected. Without provocation, without opposition, the astonished English, living... 
