 | Edward Napoleon Kirby - 1895 - 216 страници
...horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. 3. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and of which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1895 - 494 страници
...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 - 1895 - 1134 страници
...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.... | |
 | George Ernest Morrison - 1895 - 370 страници
...country were signs of the ruthless devastation of religious war. That was a war of extermination. " A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple." Crumbling walls are at long distances from the towns they used to guard ; there are pastures and waste... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 страници
...suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. — Then 5 ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had...universal fire blasted every field, consumed every 10 house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 388 страници
...horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and of which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 страници
...horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. 25 Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye has seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 страници
...heart, which kept alive the spirit of exalted freedom." — Reflections on the Revolution in France. " Then ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 страници
...horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye...that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted evory field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 страници
...ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, nor heart conceived, and which no tongue could adequately tell. All the horrors of war, before known...universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, and destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part,... | |
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Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the... 
