 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 478 pàgines
...the execution of their office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor beast, to be seen within the compass of fifty miles; all was ruin, silence, and desolation." I have here presented the reader with one of the most shocking instances of cruelty ever practised,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 524 pàgines
...the execution of their office, that in a Tew days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor beast, to be seen within the compass of fifty miles; all was ruin, silence, and desolation." I have here presented the reader with one of the most shocking instances of cruelty ever practised,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 552 pàgines
...the execution of their office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor beast, to be seen within the compass of fifty miles ; all was ruin, silence, and desolation." I have here presented the reader with one of the most shocking instances of cruelty ever practised,... | |
 | Eliza Ann Harris Dick Ogilvy - 1846 - 290 pàgines
..." informs us that so active were the ministers of vengeance, that " in a few days neither house nor cottage, man nor beast, was to be seen within the...miles — all was ruin, silence, and desolation." It appears that the Chief of Glengarry himself took no part in the rising, nor did his eldest son,... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1878 - 880 pàgines
...the ministers of vengeance, that ' in a few days neither house nor cottage, man nor beast, was to bo seen within the compass of fifty miles — all was ruin, silence, and desolation.' It appears that the Chief of Glengarry himself took no part in tho rising, nor did his eldest son,... | |
 | Lachlan Shaw - 1882 - 444 pàgines
...burned. So active and alert were those ministers of vengeance, that in a few days neither house nor cottage, man nor beast, was to be seen within the compass of 50 miles ; all was ruin, silence, and desolation ! Yet jollity and glee alone resounded in the camp... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1884 - 776 pàgines
...these ministers of vengeance that in a few days, according to the testimony of a volunteer who served in the expedition, neither house, cottage, man, nor beast was to be seen within a compass of fifty miles ; all was ruin, silence, and desolation. Deprived of their cattle and their... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1884 - 604 pàgines
...these ministers of vengeance that in a few days, according to the testimony of a volunteer who served in the expedition, neither house, cottage, man, nor beast was to be seen within a compass of fifty miles; all was ruin, silence, and desolation. Deprived of their cattle and their... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1894 - 476 pàgines
...the execution of their office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor beast, to be seen within the compass of fifty miles ; all was ruin, silence, and desolation." I have here presented the reader with one of the most shocking instances of cruelty ever practised,... | |
 | MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY - 1906
...the execution of their office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor beast, to be seen within the compass of fifty miles; all was ruin, silence, and desolation.” I have here presented the reader with one of the most shocking instances of cruelty ever practised,... | |
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... violation, and then turned out naked, with their children, to starve on the barren heaths. One whole family was enclosed in a barn, and consumed to ashes. Those ministers of vengeance were so alert in the execution of their office, that in a few days... 
