 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, and the reports of muskets used...  Extracts from The true grandeur of nations; an oration - Page 9by Charles Sumner - 1846 - 31 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...: 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,... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shnmcless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1846 - 636 pages
...prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1834 - 642 pages
...prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pages
...prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...and murder, shrieks, and piteoui lamentations, groans, shouts, and imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos !... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1835 - 910 pages
...and as the worst men were the leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1836 - 498 pages
...and as the worst men were the leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
 | Henry Southern, George William Frederick Villiers Earl of Clarendon - 1837 - 220 pages
...prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
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