 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
 | Henry Southern, George William Frederick Villiers Earl of Clarendon - 1837 - 220 pages
...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 in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz !... | |
 | Thomas Farr - 1838 - 362 pages
...leaders here, all " the dreadful passions of human nature " were displayed. Shameless rapacity, bru" tal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and " murder, shrieks...lamentations, " groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing " of fires bursting from the houses, the " crashing of doors and windows, and the " reports of muskets used... | |
 | Thomas Farr - 1838 - 358 pages
...leaders here, all " the dreadful passions of human nature " were displayed. Shameless rapacity, bru" tal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and " murder, shrieks...lamentations, " groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing " of fires bursting from the houses, the " crashing of doors and windows, and the " reports of muskets used... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 900 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... | |
 | 1840 - 844 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, arid the reports of muskets used... | |
 | 1840 - 440 pages
...but the madness generally prevailed, and 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... | |
 | 1846 - 910 pages
...the words of a partial historian [Napier] : " Shameless rapacity, brntel intemperance, savage fust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations,...of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days nnd nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were... | |
 | T. M. Hughes - 1847 - 382 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... | |
 | Terence McMahon Hughes - 1847 - 488 pages
...obliged to retire to escape being shot by the brutalized soldiers. " Shameless rapacity/' says Napier, " brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder,...lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 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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