 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 pages
...to leave it to your general conceptions. #For eighteen months, without intermiffion, thisdeftruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore; and fo compleatly did thefe maiters in their art, Hyder Ali, and his more ferocious fon, abfolve themfelves... | |
 | 1795 - 432 pages
...pursuing horses, were 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...without intermission, this destruction raged from the.gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...leave it to your general conceptions, * For eighteen months, without intermiffion, this deftruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and fo completely did thefe maflers in their art, Hyder Ali, and his more ferocious fon, abfolve themfelves... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 464 pages
...it to your general conceptions. 83 For * For eighteen months, without intermilfion, this deftruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore; and fo completely did thefe mafters in their art, Hyder Ali, and his more ferocious fon, abfolve themfelves... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 474 pages
...to your general conceptions. S 3 For * For eighteen months, without intermiffion, this deftruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore; and fo completely did thefe mafters in their art, Hyder Ali, and his more fe^. rocious fon, abfolve themfeives... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 pages
...horses, were swept iato captivity, in an nn- : known and hostile, land. Those who -were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, nhgy: fell into the jaws of famine. , For eighteen months, without intermission,' this destruction... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled lo the walled cities. Bat escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; and all was done by... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1815 - 746 pages
...pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping...sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly .liberal ; and all was done by... | |
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... 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 in an unknown... 
