Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed... The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 399by Edmund Burke - 1834Full view - About this book
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pages
...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...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...no eye had seen, 1 nor heart conceived', I and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war, before known, or heard' of, | were mer'cy...fire', | blasted every field , | consumed every house,' | and destroyed every tem.ple. | The miserable inhabitants, i flying from their flaming villages, |... | |
| John Adolphus - 1841 - 638 pages
...which no eye had seen, no heart con" ceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. " All the horrors of war before known or heard of, " were mercy to that..." fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroy" ed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying " from their flaming villages, in part... | |
| John Adolphus - 1841 - 672 pages
...which no eye had seen, no heart con" ceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. " All the horrors of war before known or heard of, " were mercy to that..." fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroy" ed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying " from their flaming villages, in part... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 pages
...which no eye had seen, nor heart conceived, and which no tongue could adequately tell. All the horrors of war, before known or heard of, were mercy to that...universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, and destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1844 - 548 pages
...eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of w:ir before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc....temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their (fuming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...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...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 340 pages
...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...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of,. were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 pages
...had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war hefore known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A...consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserahle inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pages
...which no eye had seen, nor heart conceived, and which no tongue could adequately tell. All the horrors of war, before known or heard of, were mercy to that...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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