Tender and delicate women, whose veils had never been lifted before the public gaze, came forth from the inner chambers in which Eastern jealousy had kept watch over their beauty, threw themselves on the earth before the passers-by, and, with loud wailings,... Essay on Clive - Página 234por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 113 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 páginas
...handful of rice for their children. The Hooglv every day rolled down thousands of corpses, close by the porticoes and gardens of the English conquerors....dying and the dead. The lean and feeble survivors liad not energy enough to bear the bodies of their kindred to the funeral pile, or to the holy river,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...handful of rice for their children. The Hoogley every day rolled down thousands of corpses close by the porticoes and gardens of the English conquerors. The very streets of Calcutta were blocked np by the dying and the dead. The lean and feeble survivors had not energy enough to bear the bodies... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 páginas
...rice for their children. The Hoogley every day rolled down thousands of corpses close by the ponicoei and gardens of the English conquerors. The very streets of Calcutta were blocked np by the dying and the dead. The lean and feeMe survivors had not energy enough to bear me bodies... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 páginas
...known as William Huntington, SS ; and the superstition which was strangely mingled with the knayery of that remarkable impostor seems to have derived...energy enough to bear the bodies of their kindred to thu funeral pile or to the holy river, or even to scare away the jackals and vultures, who fed on human... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 páginas
...policy was to a great extent abandoned; the abuses which he had suppressed began to revive; and at t length the evils which a bad government had engendered...enough to bear the bodies of their kindred to the funer.il pile or to the holy river, or even to scare away the jackals and vultures, who fed on human... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1866 - 312 páginas
...came forth from the inner chambers in. which Eastern jealousy had kept watch over their beauty, throw themselves on the earth before the passers-by, and...English conquerors. The very streets of Calcutta were blackened up by the dying and the dead. The lean and feeble survivors had not energy enough to bear... | |
| James Grant - 1876 - 602 páginas
...threw themselves before the passersby, imploring a handful of rice for their children. The Hooghley every day rolled down thousands of corpses close to...the porticoes and gardens of the English conquerors, and the very streets of Calcutta were blocked up by the dying and the dead." "At this time," says a... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 244 páginas
...threw themselves on the earth before the passers-by, and, with loud waitings, implored a handful 15 of rice for their children. The Hoogley every day...and feeble survivors had not energy enough to bear 20 the bodies of their kindred to the funeral pile, or to the holy river, or even to scare away the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 páginas
...gaze, came forth from the inner chambers in which Eastern jealousy had kept watch over their Iwauty, threw themselves on the earth before the passers-by,...feeble survivors had not energy enough to bear the Ixxlics of their kindred to the funeral pile or to the lioly river, or even to scare away the jackals... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 páginas
...over their beauty, threw themselves on the earth before the passers-by, and, with loud «•ailing«, implored a handful of rice for their children. The...dead. The lean and feeble survivors had not energy tnoufjh to bear the bodies of their kindred to the funeral pile or to the holy river, or even to scare... | |
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