 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1832 - 568 pagina’s
...dissolve in their own corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses as the defence became contracted. The suburb, the greatest part of...testimony to the constancy of the besieged. Palafox was sick, and of the plebeian chiefs, the curate of St. Gil, the lemonade seller of the Cosso, and... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1835 - 428 pagina’s
...dissolve in their own corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses as the defence became contracted. " The suburb, the greatest part...one-fourth of the houses were in the hands of the French ; 16,000 shells thrown during the bombardment, and the explosion of 45,000 pounds of powder in the... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1835 - 750 pagina’s
...their own corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses as the defence liecame contracted. " The suburb, the greatest part of the...one-fourth of the houses were in the hands of the .French ; 16,000 shells thrown during the bombardment, and the explosion of 45,000 pounds of powder in the... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1835 - 440 pagina’s
...in the hands of the French; 16,000 shells thrown during the bombardment, and the explosion of 45,000 pounds of powder in the mines, had shaken the city to its foundations, and the bones of more than 40,000 persons of every ag-e and sex bore dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged. " Palafox... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1835 - 442 pagina’s
...pounds of powder in the mines, had shaken the city to its foundations, and the bones of more than 40,000 persons of every age and sex bore dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged. " Palafox was sick ; and of the plebeian chiefs, the most distinguished having been slain in battle, or swept... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 866 pagina’s
...dissolve in their own corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses as the defence became contracted. The suburb, the greatest part of...sex, bore dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged.1 Palafox was sick, and of the plebeian chiefs, the curate of St. Gil, the lemonade seller... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pagina’s
...atmosphere, and the predisposition to disease, that th« slightest wound gangrened and became incurable. The suburb, the greatest part of the walls, and onefourth...dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged. At this time the deaths were from four to five hundred daily: the living were unable to bury the dead;... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1845 - 108 pagina’s
...corruption or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses. The city was shaken to its foundation by sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment,...fortyfive thousand pounds of powder in the mines, while the bones of forty thousand persons of every age and both sexes, bore dreadful testimony to the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1846 - 42 pagina’s
...corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses. The city was shaken to its foundation by sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment,...forty-five thousand pounds of powder in the mines, while the bones of forty thousand persons, of every age, and both sexes, bore dreadful testimony to... | |
 | 1846 - 860 pagina’s
...corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses. The city was shaken to its foundation by sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment,...forty-five thousand pounds of powder in the mines, while the bones of forty thousand persons, of every age, and both sexes, bore dreadful testimony to... | |
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... scattered about the streets and court-yards, or piled in heaps at the doors of the churches, were left to dissolve in their own corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses as the defence became contracted. The suburb, the greatest... 
