 | Thomas Paine - 1990 - 244 Seiten
...One whole family was enclosed in a barn, and consumed to ashes. Those ministers of vengeance were so alert in the execution of their office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor beast, to be seen within the compass of fifty miles; all was ruin, silence,... | |
 | Aileen Douglas - 1995 - 244 Seiten
...Cumberland "detached several parties to ravage the country": "Those ministers of vengeance were so alert in the execution of their office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man nor beast, to be seen in the compass of fifty miles; all was ruin, silence and... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 Seiten
...One whole family was inclosed in a barn, and consumed to ashes. Those ministers of vengeance were so alert in the execution of their office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor beast, to be seen within the compass of fifty miles; all was ruin, silence... | |
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... form of trial; the women, after having seen their husbands and fathers murdered, were subjected to brutal violation, and then turned out naked, with their children, to starve on the barren heaths. One whole family was enclosed in a barn, and consumed... 
