 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading apears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses,...escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jawi of famine. For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from their children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...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... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1849 - 428 pages
...function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry — those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled ci ties but escaping fire and sword and exile they fled into the jaws of famine. — Burke on the Invasion... | |
 | Queen's University of Belfast - Education, Higher - 1852 - 306 pages
...respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine For months together these creatures of suffering, whose very excess and luxury in their most plenteous... | |
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of driven aud to earth, for these I pray to live !' Round his chill...of the Planta.*] And now, philanthropy! thy rays d The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...respect of rank, or sacredncss of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amidst the goading...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. [Trinity College Fellowships, 1848.] 162. His conduct upon these occasions may be thought irrational.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...function; fathers lorn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amid the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. 86 " The reader will find it interesting to compare this passage with the most eloquent one in Mr.... | |
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... 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 of function ; fathers torn... 
