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 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrors of war hefore 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 miserahle inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 554 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 Dobson - 1845 - 204 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to this 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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrors of war beforo 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... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 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... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 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... | |
 | 1851 - 560 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... | |
 | Queen's University of Belfast - Education, Higher - 1852 - 306 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, were in part slaughtered; others without regard to... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 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... | |
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