 ... 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 of function, fathers...  The Competitor - Page 601882Full view - About this book
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...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...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 554 pages
...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...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | William Dobson - 1845 - 204 pages
...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...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...regard to sea;, to age, or rank, or sacredness of fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped - in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. / But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fe... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading apears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses,...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...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...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from their children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But, escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | Queen's University of Belfast - Education, Higher - 1852 - 306 pages
...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...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ; but escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...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...an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell... | |
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