...exaggerate, the hon. Member said, if he applied to these transactions the famous words — " There ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye had...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell." The island of Jamaica was about the size of Yorkshire : it contained a population of about 450,000,...

...mitigation of war confined to Europe. Burke tells us that when Hyder Ali ravaged the Carnatic, ' ' a storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple." When the British armies traversed this district eighteen months later, " through the whole line of...

...horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. 3. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and of which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy...

...ungula campum ('/Encid,' viii. 596.) Describing Hyder All's devastation of the Carnatic, Burke says: 'A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed...destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants fiying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age,...

...country were signs of the ruthless devastation of religious war. That was a war of extermination. " A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple." Crumbling walls are at long distances from the towns they used to guard ; there are pastures and waste...

...suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. — Then 5 ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had...universal fire blasted every field, consumed every 10 house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in...

...this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then...of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and of which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy...

...horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. 25 Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye has seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before...

...heart, which kept alive the spirit of exalted freedom." — Reflections on the Revolution in France. " Then ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new...

...this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then...that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted evory field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their...