| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. — Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal flre blasted... | |
| Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.' Surely this is an immeasureable improvement, at least for the English House of Commons, on the ' like... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic — Then ensued a scene of woo, the tiko of which no nye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue...war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 654 pages
...1773-1784.] HYDER DEFEATED BY COÛTE. 181 contents on the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havock. A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
| Alexander Bain - English language - 1890 - 376 pages
...horizon,' let the sentuuoo run thus — ' suddenly bursting, it poured down '. 'Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.' Here a change to the period might be admissible : — ' Then ensued such a scene of woe, as neither... | |
| John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 280 pages
...poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
| Samuel Silas Curry - Expression - 1891 - 474 pages
...poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.'" " Brougham contrasts this passage with that in which Demosthenes says that a danger 'went by like a... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1872 - 1100 pages
...Member said, if he applied to these transactions the famous words — " There ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell." The island of Jamaica was about the size of Yorkshire : it contained a population of about 450,000,... | |
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