 Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows,' the reports of muskets used in...  The War in the Peninsula, and Wellington's Campaigns in France and Belgium ... - Σελίδα 230των Herbert R. Clinton - 1878 - 471 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1834 - 614 σελίδες
...: and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...shrieks, and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, and imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows,... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 σελίδες
...as 170 the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed : shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, curses, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports... | |
 | 1840 - 844 σελίδες
...prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, arid the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two dnys and nights in the streets of Badajos... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1845 - 108 σελίδες
...a splendid victory !" Life of Wilberforce, IV. 256, 261. * Alison, Hist. of French Rev. VIII. 114. savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1846 - 42 σελίδες
...enacted again, with added atrocities. Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : ' Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1846 - 112 σελίδες
...enacted again with added atrocities. Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : " Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
 | 1846 - 910 σελίδες
...the words of a partial historian [Napier] : " Shameless rapacity, brntel intemperance, savage fust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
 | Terence McMahon Hughes - 1847 - 488 σελίδες
...obliged to retire to escape being shot by the brutalized soldiers. " Shameless rapacity/' says Napier, " brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 σελίδες
...were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, i-brieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, retounded for... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 σελίδες
...again enacted with added atrocities. Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : " Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fire bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in... | |
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