But death was the lightest punishment inflicted by those more than barbarous savages : all the tortures which •wanton cruelty could devise, all the lingering pains of body, the anguish of mind, the agonies of despair, could not satiate revenge excited... HISTORY OF IRELAND - Pągina 81per REV. R. STEWART - 1851Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 480 pągines
...protection was implored and expected. Simple death, however, was a mercy from the Irish barbarians. All the tortures which wanton cruelty could devise, all the lingering pains of body and anguish of mind, which malicious ingenuity could invent, were now put in practice ; and some of... | |
| David Hume - 1810 - 504 pągines
...of kindness and good offices. 0 BUT death was the slightest punishment inflicted by those rebels : All the tortures which wanton cruelty could devise,...revenge excited without injury, and cruelty derived from np cause. To enter into particulars, would shock the least delicate humanity. Such enormities, though... | |
| Stephen Barlow - 1814 - 504 pągines
...continued intercourse of kindness and good offices. " But death was the lightest punishment infUcted by those more than barbarous savages: all the tortures...particulars would shock the least delicate humanity, bucb, enormities, though attested by undoubted evidence, appear almost incredible. Depraved nature,... | |
| Thomas Ashe - 1815 - 316 pągines
...protection was expected when implored. But death was the slightest punishment inflicted by the French. All the tortures which wanton cruelty could devise;...the lingering pains of body, the anguish of mind, and the agonies of despair, were inflicted ; and they zealously strove to shew a love of liberty, by... | |
| Thomas Ashe - 1815 - 320 pągines
...protection was expected when implored. But death was the slightest punishment inflicted by the French. AH the tortures which wanton cruelty could devise ; all...the lingering pains of body, the anguish of mind, and the agonies of despair, were inflicted ; and they zealously strove to shew a love of liberty, by... | |
| the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pągines
...kindness and good offices. But death was the lightest punishment inflicted by those enraged Rebels ; all the tortures which wanton cruelty could devise,...injury, and cruelty derived from no cause. To enter into the particulars would shock the least delicate humanity ; such enormities, though attested by undoubted... | |
| John Graham - 1819 - 442 pągines
...punishment inflicted by those enraged Rebels ; all the tortures which wanton cruelty could devise: -.11 the lingering pains of body, the anguish of mind,...revenge, excited without injury, and cruelty derived i'rom no cause. To enter into the particulars would shock the least delicate humanity ; such enormities,... | |
| 1839 - 1092 pągines
...husband, and embracing her helpless children, was pierced with them, and perished by the same stroke. All the tortures which wanton cruelty could devise ; all the lingering pains of body, and anguish of mind, the agonies of despair, could not satiate revenge excited without injury, and... | |
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