| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1799 - 788 pages
...calculated to excite an intereft here ; but the Swifs no doubt endure them with quiet refignation, and contented humility. If, after the taking of Soleure,...Sion capitulated to the French, the troops were let loofc to revel in every fpecies of liccntioufnefs and cruelty, — if the women, after having been... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1819 - 810 pages
...contented humility. If, after the taking of Soleure, the venerable magistrates of that place were first paraded round the town in barbarous triumph, and afterwards,...Sion capitulated to the French, the troops were let loose to revel in every species of licentiousness and cruelty, — if toe women, after having been... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1819 - 816 pages
...magistrales of that place were first paraded round the town in barbarous triumph, aiid [54 ;. v.'irnrds, contrary to all the laws of war, of nations, and of...inhumanly put to death ; if, when the unoffending toOTofSion capitulated to the French, the troops were let loose to revel in every species of licentiousness... | |
| George Canning - 1828 - 516 pages
...contented humility. If, after the taking of Soleure, the venerable magistrates of that place were first paraded round the town in barbarous triumph, and afterwards,...Sion capitulated to the French, the troops were let loose to revel in every species of licentiousness and cruelty ;—if the women, after having been brutally... | |
| Charles Knapp Dillaway - Recitations - 1830 - 484 pages
...humility. If, after the taking of Soleure, the venerable magistrates of that place were first handed round the town in barbarous triumph, and afterwards, contrary to all the laws of war, of nations, and nature, were inhumanly put to death; if, when the unoffending town of Sion capitulated to the French,... | |
| George Canning - Great Britain - 1835 - 650 pages
...contented humility. If, after the taking of Soleure, the venerable magistrates of that place were first paraded round the town in barbarous triumph, and afterwards,...Sion capitulated to the French, the troops were let loose to revel in every species of licentiousness and cruelty; — if the women, after having been... | |
| George Canning - Great Britain - 1836 - 508 pages
...contented humility. If, after the taking of Soleure, the venerable magistrates of that place were first paraded round the town in barbarous triumph, and afterwards,...Sion capitulated to the French, the troops were let loose to revel in every species of licentiousness and cruelty ; — if the women, after having been... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...humility. If, after the taking of Soleure, the venerable magistrates of that place were first handed round the town in barbarous triumph, and afterwards, contrary to all the laws of war, of nations, and nature, were inhumanly put to death ; if, when the unoffending town of Sion capitulated to the French,... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 264 pages
...contented humility. If, after the taking of Soleure, the venerable magistrates of that place were first paraded round the town in barbarous triumph, and afterwards,...Sion capitulated to the French, the troops were let loose to revel in every species of licentiousness and cruelty ; — if the women, after having been... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...humility. If, after the taking of Soleure, the venerable magistrates of that place were first handed round the town in barbarous triumph, and afterwards, contrary to all the laws of war, of nations, and nature, were inhumanly put to death ; if, when the unoffending town of Sion capitulated to the French,... | |
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