 | 1795 - 432 pages
...function; fathers torn from children, husbands frcm wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading, spears of drivers, and the trampling...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,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...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 of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...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 of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity,... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 pages
...function; fathers torn fromchildren, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading 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 tempest, fled... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...were slaughtered; others, without regard 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 of drivers, and the trampling of pin-suing horses, were swept into captivity,... | |
 | 1813 - 458 pages
...slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacrcclness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity,... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enreloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears' of drivers, and the trampling...swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from 5re, sword]... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1815 - 746 pages
...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 of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...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 of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of...swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword,... | |
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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... 
