 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1785 - 796 sider
...efcaping from fire, fword, and exjle, they fell into the jaws cf famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal;...charity that private charity could do : but it was m. people in beggary; it was a nation which ftretched out its hands for food. For month, together thefe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 sider
...Thofe who were able to evade this tempeft, fled to the walled cities. But efcaping from fire, fword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private... | |
 | 1795 - 432 sider
...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 land. Those who were rb!e to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 sider
...Thofe who were able to evade this tempeft, fled to the walled cities. But efcaping from fire, fword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 464 sider
...Thofe who were able to evade this tempeft, fled to the walled cities. But efcaping from fire, fword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, .ge»cy, were certainly liberal; and all was done by charity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 474 sider
...Thofe who were able to evade this tempeft, fled to the walled cities. But efcaping from fire, fword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, gency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 sider
...spears, of 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...cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, nhgy: fell into the jaws of famine. , For eighteen months, without intermission,' this destruction... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 sider
...whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst 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 evade this tempest, fled lo the walled cities. Bat escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 sider
...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...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... | |
 | 1821 - 522 sider
...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...of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were cerlainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private charity could do ; but it was a people... | |
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... 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, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears... 
