The country was laid waste with fire and sword ; and that land distinguished above most others, by the cheerful face of paternal government and protected labour, the chosen seat of cultivation and plenty, is now almost throughout a dreary desert, covered... Germania: Its Courts, Camps, and People - Página 90por Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.) - 1850Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 464 páginas
...or banifhed. The country was laid wafte with fire and fword; and that land, diftinguifhed above moft others by the cheerful face of paternal government and protected labour, the chofen feat of cultivation and plenty, is now almoft throughout a dreary defert, covered with rufhes... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 466 páginas
...through the English camp. The whole nation, with inconsiderable exceptions, was slaughtered or banished. The country was laid waste with fire and sword ; and...throughout a dreary desert, covered with rushes and briars, and jungles full of wild beasts. The British officer who commanded in the delivery of the people... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 468 páginas
...through the English camp. The whole nation, with inconsiderable exceptions, was slaughtered or banished. The country was laid waste with fire and sword ; and...paternal government and protected labour, the chosen sea* of cultivation and plenty, is now almost throughout a dreary desert, covered with rushes and briars,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1816 - 532 páginas
...English camp. The whole naEE 2 A ! m tion, with inconsiderable exceptions, was slaughtered or banished. The country was laid waste with fire and sword ; and...throughout a dreary desert, covered with rushes and briars and jungles full of wild beasts. The British officer who commanded in the delivery of the people... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1823 - 472 páginas
...with inconsiderable exceptions, was slaughtered or banished. The country was laid waste with fire «nd sword; and that land distinguished above most others,...throughout a dreary desert, covered with rushes and briars, and jungles full of wild beasts. The British officer who commanded in the delivery of the people... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 páginas
...tbrough the English camp. The whole nation, with inconsiderable except ions, was slaughtered or banished. undred miles from any sea-port, and not distinguished...whatsoever. From this territory several very considerable tbroughout a dreary desert, covered with rushes and briers, and jungles full of wild beasts. • The... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 páginas
...through the English camp. The whole nation, with inconsiderable exceptions, was slaughtered or banished. The country was laid waste with fire and sword ; and...cheerful face of paternal government and protected labor, the chosen seat of cultivation and plenty, is now almost throughout a dreary desert, covered... | |
| 1845 - 554 páginas
...through the English camp. The whole nation, with inconsiderable exceptions, was slaughtered or banished. The country was laid waste with fire and sword ; and...cheerful face of paternal government and protected labor, the chosen seat of cultivation and plenty, is now almost throughout a dreary desert, covered... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 páginas
...through the English camp. The whole nation, with inconsiderable exceptions, was slaughtered or banished. The country was laid waste with fire and sword ; and...cheerful face of paternal government and protected labor, the chosen seat of cultivation and plenty, is now almost throughout a dreary desert, covered... | |
| Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.) - 1851 - 482 páginas
...unwarrantable and odious,* of hateful and deliberate injustice,! of cruelty, nay of savage barbarity,{ but of that of which not one of her very worst * "...desert, covered with rushes and briers, and jungles fuH of wild beasts." — Burke's Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill. •f " But supposing the Rajah... | |
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