Churches, palaces, and the houses of private persons were plundered without distinction. No age, or character, or sex, was exempt from injury. Cardinals, nobles, priests, matrons, virgins, were all the prey of soldiers, and at the mercy of men deaf to... Arnaldo; Gaddo; and other unacknowledged poems by lord Byron and some of his ... - Página 96de George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1836Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| William Robertson - 1840 - 670 páginas
...and the houses of private persons, were plundered without distinction. No age, or character, or sei, was exempt from injury. Cardinals, nobles, priests,...at the mercy of men deaf to the voice of humanity. Nor did these outrages cease, as is usual in towns which are carried by assault, when the first fury... | |
| Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 páginas
...suffer. Churches, palaces, and the houses of private persons were plundered without distinction. No age, or character, or sex was exempt from injury. Cardinals,...at the mercy of men deaf to the voice of humanity. Nor did these outrages cease, as is usual in towns which are carried by assault, when the first fury... | |
| Samuel Roffey Maitland - 1849 - 610 páginas
...Churches, palaces, and the houses ' of private persons were plundered without distinction. ' No age, or character, or sex was exempt from injury. ' Cardinals,...the mercy of men deaf to ' the voice of humanity. Nor did these outrages cease, ' as is usual in towns carried by assault, when the first 'fury of the... | |
| William Robertson - 1856 - 656 páginas
...suffer. Churches, palaces, and the houses of private persons, were plundered without distinction. No age, or character, or sex, was exempt from injury. Cardinals,...at the mercy of men deaf to the voice of humanity. Nor did these outrages cease, as is usual in towns which are carried by assault, when the first fury... | |
| James Birchall - 1861 - 760 páginas
...or tempted by other lures, can imagine or perpetrate."* 5,000 men are said to have perished; no age, or character, or sex, was exempt from injury ; cardinals,...priests, matrons, virgins, were all the prey of soldiers : while the Spaniards and Italians plundered the houses and palaces ; and the Germans, who probably... | |
| James Birchall - 1870 - 434 páginas
...or perpetrate."* live thousand men are said to have perished ; no age, nor character, nor condition was exempt from injury; cardinals, nobles, priests, matrons, virgins, were all the prey of soldiers. While the Spaniards and Italians plundered the houses and palaces ; the Germans, who probably had imbibed... | |
| John Edwin Nixon - 1874 - 148 páginas
...Churches, palaces, and the houses of private persons, were plundered without distinction. No 42 age, or character, or sex was exempt from injury. Cardinals, nobles, priests, matrons, virgins, were 42 all the prey 11 of soldiers, and at the mercy 19 of 40 men deaf to the voice of humanity. EOBEETSON.... | |
| John Edwin Nixon - 1874 - 148 páginas
...Churches, palaces, and the houses of private persons, were plundered without distinction. No43 age, or character, or sex was exempt from injury. Cardinals, nobles, priests, matrons, virgins, were42 all the prey11 of soldiers, and at the mercy12 of 40 men deaf to the voice of humanity. KOBERTSON.... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1876 - 514 páginas
...houses of private persons, were plundered without distinction. No age, or character, or sex was exen.pt from injury. Cardinals, nobles, priests, matrons,...at the mercy of men deaf to the voice of humanity. Nor did these outrages cease, as is usual in towns which are carried by assault, when the first fury... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1877 - 558 páginas
...houses of private persons, were plundered without distinction. No age, or character, or sex was exen.pt from injury. Cardinals, nobles, priests, matrons,...at the mercy of men deaf to the voice of humanity. Nor did these outrages cease, as is usual in towns which are carried by assault, when the first fury... | |
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