 Without provocation, without opposition, the astonished English, living in profound peace and full security, were massacred by their nearest neighbours, with whom they had long upheld a continual intercourse of kindness and good offices...  HISTORY OF IRELAND - Pàgina 81per REV. R. STEWART - 1851Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | David Hume - 1776 - 496 pàgines
...turn. In vain was recourfe had to relations, to companions, to friends : All connexions were diflblved, and death was dealt by that hand, from which protection...implored and expected. Without provocation, without oppofition, the aftonifhed Englifh, living in profound peace and full fecurity, were maffacred by their... | |
 | 1783 - 458 pàgines
...vain was recourfe had to relations, to companions, to former friends ; all connections were diffolved, and death was dealt by that hand, from which protection was implored and expected. The molt wanton cruelties were inflicted on thofe innocent fufferers. The very avarice of the revolters... | |
 | John Curry - 1793 - 438 pàgines
...let loofe, and met the hunted victims at every turn; that all connections were difiblved, and that death was dealt by that hand from which protection was implored and expected." In fhort, " that without provocation, without oppofition," the ' Hift. of England, Dub. ed. vol. iv.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - 498 pàgines
...condition, nor sex was spared. The dearest ties were torn asunder, without pity and without remorse, and death was dealt by that hand, from which protection was implored and expected. Simple death, however, was a mercy from the Irish barbarians. All the tortures which wanton cruelty... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 504 pàgines
...victims at every turn. In vain was recourse had to relations, to companions, to friends : All connexions were dissolved, and death was dealt by that hand,...nearest neighbours, with whom they had long upheld a continual intercourse of kindness and good offices. 0 BUT death was the slightest punishment inflicted... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pàgines
...God best knows who did occasion it." — P/iHasa/Mc Survey ofllie South of Ireland, p. Sii6. thair nearest neighbours, with whom they had long upheld...continued intercourse of kindness and good offices." Not content with imputing these and many other, if possible, greater barbarities to the first insurgents,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pàgines
...circumftances .>f unequalled barbarity. No age, fex, or condition, was fpared. All connections «ere diflolved, and death was dealt by that hand from which protection was implored and expected. All the tortures which wanton cruelty could devife, all the lingering pains of body, the anguiih of... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 732 pàgines
...let loose, and met the hunted victims at every turn ; that ajl connections were dissolved, and that death was dealt by that hand from which protection was implored and expected." In short, " that without provocation, •without opposition,* the astonished English were massacred... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 604 pàgines
...victims at every turn. In vain was recourse had to relations, to companions, to friends: All connexions were dissolved, and death was dealt by that hand,...nearest neighbours, with whom they had long upheld a continual intercourse of kindness and good offices °. BUT death was the slightest punishment inflicted... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - 1814 - 504 pàgines
...victims at every turn. In vain was recourse had to relations, to companions, to friends: all connexions were dissolved, and death was dealt by that hand,...good offices. " But death was the lightest punishment infUcted by those more than barbarous savages: all the tortures which wanton cruelty could devise,... | |
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