 | History - 1762 - 618 pages
...any horrors to the piflure ; but fure even conquerors themfelves woold weep at the hideous profpeft now before me. The whole country, my dear country, lies one frightful wafie, prefenting only objeils to excite terror, pity, and defpair. The bufinefj of the hufbandman... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1762 - 666 pages
...any horrors to the piflure ; but fure even conquerors themfelves would weep at the hideous profpeft now before me. The whole country, my dear country, lies one frightful wafie, prefenting only objects to excite terror, pity, and defpair. The bufihels of the hufbandman... | |
 | Johann Stephan Pütter - Constitutional history - 1790 - 478 pages
...any horrors to the pidhire; but furely even conquerors themfelves would yeep at the hideous profpedt now before me ! " The whole country, my dear country ! lies one frightful ivafte, prefenting only objects to excite terror, pity, and defpair. "The bufinefs of the hufbandman... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...present from such a charming scene ! I am not expert at description, nor can my fancy add any horrors to the picture ; but sure even conquerors themselves...shepherd are quite discontinued ; the husbandman and the shepherd are become soldiers themselves, and help to ravage the soil they formerly occupied. The... | |
 | Charles Butler - Austria - 1807 - 360 pages
...expert at descrip" tion, nor can my fancy add any horrors "to the picture; but surely even conquer" ors themselves would weep at the hideous " prospect now...presenting only " objects to excite terror, pity, and de" spair. The business of the husbandman " and the shepherd are quite discontinued. " The husbandman... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 642 pages
...horrors to the picture ; but surely even conqu; rors themselves would weep at the hideous prospects now before me. The whole country- -my dear country—...only objects to excite terror, pity, and despair. The occupation of the husbandman and the shepherd are quite discontinued ; the hu-.bandman and the shepherd... | |
 | John Brady - 1815 - 428 pages
...present from such a charming scene! I am not expert at description, nor can my fancy add any horrors to the picture : but sure even conquerors themselves would weep at the hideous prospects now before me. The whole country, my dear country ! lies one frightful waste, presenting... | |
 | John Brady - Calendar - 1815 - 426 pages
...present from such a charming scene ! I am not expert at description, nor can my fancy add any horrors to the picture : but sure even conquerors themselves would weep at the hideous prospects now before me. The whole country, my dear country ! lies one frightful waste, presenting... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Pacifism - 1816 - 814 pages
...present from such a charming scene '. I am not expert at description, nor can my fancy add any horrors to the picture ; but sure even conquerors themselves...frightful waste, presenting only objects to excite pity, terror, and despair. The business of the husbandman and the shepherd is quite discontinued ;... | |
 | Thomas Green - Great Britain - 1818 - 654 pages
...present from such a charming scene ! I am not expert at description, nor can my fancy add any horrors to the picture ; but sure even conquerors themselves...frightful waste, presenting only objects to excite pity, terror, and despair. The business of the husbandman and the shepherd is quite discontinued ;... | |
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I am not expert at description, nor can my fancy add any horrors to the picture ; but sure even conquerors themselves would weep at the hideous prospect now before me. The whole Country, my dear Country, lies one frightful waste, presenting only objects... 
