| Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1921 - Страниц: 454
...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...destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants fleeing from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age,... | |
| Warner Taylor - 1923 - Страниц: 524
...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...seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can accurately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm... | |
| Joseph Wells - 1923 - Страниц: 248
...always reminds me of a famous purple patch in Burke's speech on the ' Nabob of Arcot's Debts ' 1 : 'Then ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye had seen. . . . All scenes of horror before known of, were mercy to that new havoc.' 1 iv. 260 ; ed. of 1808.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1925 - Страниц: 552
...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. —...storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed everj''ouse, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages,... | |
| Alexander Magnus Drummond - 1925 - Страниц: 322
...sells/ and sends/ his sub/jects to/ the sham/bles of a foreign prince. (Chatham, Address to the Throne.) Then/ ensued/ a scene/ of woe/ the like/ of which/...conceived/ and which/ no tongue/ can ad/equately tell. (Burke, Nabob of Arcot's Debts.) Thus the law . . . goes up to the fountain of human agency, and arraigns/... | |
| Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1926 - Страниц: 602
...mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance. . . . Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. ... A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The... | |
| Harrison Ross Steeves - 1927 - Страниц: 264
...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 —...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell." Today this strong reliance upon the devices of rhetoric has all but disappeared. The contrast between... | |
| Warner Taylor - 1927 - Страниц: 668
...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...seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can accurately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm... | |
| N. S. Ramaswami - 1984 - Страниц: 628
...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 like of which no eye has seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. "A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
| Arman Dzhonovich Kirakosi︠a︡n - 2004 - Страниц: 324
...this heroic nation has had to suffer. Daily recurring accounts make so overwhelming the evidence that "All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to this new havoc" — as was said of Warren Hastings' exploits in India — that no one now, not even... | |
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