 | 1795 - 432 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pagina’s
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pagina’s
...part were slaughtered : others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 458 pagina’s
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacrcclness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1815 - 746 pagina’s
...part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pagina’s
...respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enreloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from 5re, sword] and exile, th-jy foil into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pagina’s
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The... | |
 | 1821 - 510 pagina’s
...part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands...Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to 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... 
