 When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered...  Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive - Página 56por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - 147 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1840 - 662 páginas
...of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened (o cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and... | |
 | 1840 - 612 páginas
...of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threcitened to cut down all who. hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of... | |
 | 1849 - 792 páginas
...of the nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated, they...entreated, but in vain. The guards threatened to cut all down who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door... | |
 | 1840 - 612 páginas
...of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the no don. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they...the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in history or fiction — 'not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 páginas
...aughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostuated ; they entreated; but in vain. The guards threatened...the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. From a child Surajah Dowlah had hated the English. It was his whim to do so; and his whims were never... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 páginas
...of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated; they...the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. The Nabob seated himself with regal pomp in the principal hall of the factory, and ordered Mr. Holwell,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they...driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and ihe door was instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in history or fiction — not even the story... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 páginas
...expostulate and implore ; upon which the officer ordered his men to cut down those who hesitated, and the captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword. The space was so thronged that the last could hardly find room to enter. The savages without then locked... | |
 | 1849 - 864 páginas
...their mistake. They expostulated, they entreated, but in vain. The guards threatened to cut all down who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell...of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and looked upon them. "Nothing in history or fiction — not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea... | |
 | 1849 - 822 páginas
...of the nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated, they...entreated, but in vain. The guards threatened to cut all down who hcstitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the... | |
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