 | John Edwin Nixon - 1885 - 256 pages
...adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or ю heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed...regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacred- 25 ness of function, fathers torn from chiklren, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, and destroyed every temple. 4. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming...slaughtered; others without regard to sex, to age or rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - 1886 - 246 pages
...Macaulay's style: — "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...function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, envelcped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 242 pages
...Macaulay's style: — " 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...function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, envelcped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 384 pages
...over which the British held sway in the Carnatic. " A storm of universal fire," in Burke's language, " blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed...temple." The miserable inhabitants, flying from their burning villages, were slaughtered or swept into captivity. All English eyes turned to Hastings. 9.... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1892 - 382 pages
...over which the British held sway in the Carnatic. " A storm of universal fire," in Burke's language, "blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed...temple." The miserable inhabitants, flying from their burning villages, were slaughtered or swept into captivity. All English eyes turned to Hastings. 9.... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1892 - 1108 pages
...British held sway in the Carnatic. " A storm of universal tire," in Burke's language, "blasted ever)' field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple." The miserable inhabitants, flying from their burning villages, were slaughtered or swept into captivity. All English eyes turned to Hastings. 9.... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - Moral conditions - 1893 - 376 pages
...mitigation of war confined to Europe. Burke tells us that when Hyder Ali ravaged the Carnatic, ' ' a storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple." When the British armies traversed this district eighteen months later, " through the whole line of... | |
 | James George Frazer - Bible - 1895 - 494 pages
...ungula campum ('/Encid,' viii. 596.) Describing Hyder All's devastation of the Carnatic, Burke says: 'A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed...destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants fiying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age,... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1895 - 1134 pages
...which the British "held sway in the Carnatic. " A storm of universal fire," in Burke's language, " blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed...temple." The miserable inhabitants, flying from their burning villages, were slaughtered or swept into captivity. All English eyes turned to Hastings. 9.... | |
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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... 
