 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
 | Richard C. AUSTIN - 1864 - 176 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 Six Syllables, accented on the Second Syllable. Au-thor-i-ta-tive-ly com-men-su- ra-ble-ness con-sid-er-a-ble-ness... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 pages
...horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents on 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 havock." * The terrified inhabitants... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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... | |
 | 1882 - 492 pages
...which no eye had seen, no heart conceived. and of which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrofs of war before known or heard of were mercy to that...field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. Themiserable inhabitants, fleeing from thejr flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others. without... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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 \rar before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
 | Dionysius Cassius Longinus, Longinus - 1867 - 230 pages
...Accordingly, the * Compare Burke's description of Hyder Ali's descent upon the Ca^natic : — " 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 S2 proper character of the two figures... | |
 | Oliver Ernesto Branch - 1878 - 278 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,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 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.' Surely this is an immeasurable improvement, at least for the English House of Commons, on the ' like... | |
 | Madras (India : Presidency), Charles Stewart Crole - 1879 - 472 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... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 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... | |
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