| 1809 - 530 pages
...defiance of the remonstrance of the ever to be lamented Abercromby, our poor people were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldiery, by the...of lust, and rapine, and murder, and conflagration. Instead of exhibiting the picture of an entire province, select a single object ; and even if that... | |
| John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1804 - 408 pages
...defiance of the remonstrance of the ever to be lamented ABERCHOMBY,* our poor peo| le were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldiery, by the...endeavouring to comprehend every thing, you would «onvey nothing. When the father of poetry wishes to pourtray the movements of contending armies, and... | |
| John Philpot CURRAN (Right Hon.) - Irish - 1805 - 448 pages
...foldiery, by the authority of theftate; you would vainly endeavour to give her a general picture of luft, and rapine, and murder, and conflagration. By endeavouring...you would convey nothing. When the father of poetry wifhes to pourtray the movements of contending armies, and an embattled field, he exemplifies only,... | |
| English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...defiance ef the remonstrance of the ever to be lamented Abercromby, our poor people were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldiery, by the...of lust, and rapine, and murder, and conflagration. Instead of exhibiting the picture of an entire province, select a single object; and even if that single... | |
| Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 552 pages
...defiance of the remonstrance of the ever- to-be-lamented Abercromby, our poor people were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldiery, by the...convey nothing. When the father of poetry wishes to pourtray the movements of contending armies, and an embattled field, he exemplifies only, he does not... | |
| Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 556 pages
...defiance of the remonstrance of the ever- to-be-lamented Abercromby, our poor people were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldiery, by the...convey nothing. When the father of poetry wishes • to pourtray the movements of contending armies, and an embattled field, he exemplifies only, he does not... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1818 - 826 pages
...ever-to-be-lamented Abercrombie, oar people were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldier) , by the authority of the state -, you would vainly...picture of lust and rapine and murder and conflagration. Instead of exhibiting the picture of a whole province, select a single object, and even in that single... | |
| 1818 - 860 pages
...remoustance of tb« ever-to-be-lamented Abercrombie, our people were surrendered to the licentious brutxlitv of the soldiery, by the authority of the state; you would vainly endeavour to give her я general picture of lust and rapine and murder and conflagration. Instead of exhibiting the picture... | |
| William Henry Curran - Lawyers - 1819 - 562 pages
...defiance of the remonstrance of the ever to be lamented Abercromby, our poor people were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldiery, by the...convey nothing. When the father of poetry wishes to pourtray the movements of contending armies and an embattled field, he exemplifies only, he does not... | |
| Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 738 pages
...defiance of the remonstrance of the ever to be lamented Abercromby, our poor j people were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldiery, by the authority of the stale— you would vainly endeavour to give her a general picture of lust, and rapine, and murder,... | |
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