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 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. 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... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 632 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. 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... | |
 | William Belsham - 1805 - 470 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...Madras to the court of directors, 27th June 1769. t M i. Duodai's committee, Report 1. Appendix No. 29. universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their iaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrours of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havock. 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrours of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havock. 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrours of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their naming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to... | |
 | 1813 - 458 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havock. 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... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1814 - 936 pages
...universal fire blasted eveiy field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple, the miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part •were slaughtered, till one dead, uniform sileuce reigned over tha •whole region. In September 1780, Hyder Ally surrounded and cut to pieces... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1814 - 924 pages
...of Hyder Ally in that highly cultivated and populous quarter. At this period it is said 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, till one dead, uniform... | |
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