 | 1850 - 806 pages
...admitted that some of the most frightful pictures in the ' Inferno ' are tame in comparison : — ' The sight of the horrible deeds committed by the Imperialists,...covered the prisoners with pitch, then set them on fire, and often compelled the women to assist at their husband's martyrdom. Sometimes, to make game... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...that of the most ferocious animals. Limbs torn from their victims were flung from tlio windows and barricades as food for the dogs. The heads of young...from their bodies, women's arms, and fragments of buman flesh, were thrown into the midst of the Uroscian troops, to whom bombs then seemed merciful.... | |
 | Guglielmo Pepe - 1850 - 362 pages
...to the frequent perusal of the Italians, that they may not forget what they owe to Austria : — " The sight of the horrible deeds committed by the Imperialists,...covered the prisoners with pitch, then set them on fire, and often compelled the women to assist at their husbands' martyrdom. Sometimes, to make game... | |
 | Guglielmo Pepe - Italy - 1850 - 720 pages
...to the frequent perusal of the Italians, that they may not forget what they owe to Austria : — " The sight of the horrible deeds committed by the Imperialists,...covered the prisoners with pitch, then set them on fire, and often compelled the women to assist at their husbands' martyrdom. Sometimes, to make game... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1850 - 910 pages
...admitted that some of the most frightful pictures in the ' Inferno ' are tame in comparison : — ' The sight of the horrible deeds committed by the Imperialists,...covered the prisoners with pitch, then set them on fire, and often compelled the women to assist at their husband's martyrdom. Sometimes, to make game... | |
 | Alfred Bate Richards - Disarmament - 1853 - 162 pages
...exceeds that of the most ferocious animals. Limbs torn from their victims, were flung from the windo ws and the barricades as food for the dogs. The heads...covered the prisoners with pitch, then set them on fire, and often compelled the women to assist at their husband's martyrdom. Sometimes, to make game... | |
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The sight of the horrible deeds committed by the Imperialists, whether in drunkenness or by command, or in consequence of their stupidly ferocious natures, was such as to overwhelm the mind and freeze the blood in men's veins — they were beyond the... 