 ... need not say, made me thrill with horror; especially when I recollected that this hapless victim of superstition was alive but a few minutes before. To have seen savage wolves thus tearing a human, body limb from limb, would have been shocking ; but...  The Pamphleteer - Pagina 73a cura di - 1814Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1809 - 914 pagine
...human body limb from limb, would have been shocking; but to eee relations and neighbours do thU to ene with whom they had familiarly conversed not an hour...air of levity, was almost too much for me to bear! " Turning to the Brahman, who was Ihe chief actor in this horrid tragedy, a young fellow of about twenty... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 pagine
...human body limb from limb, would have been shocking; but to sec relations and neighbours do this to ene with whom they had familiarly conversed not an hour...air of levity, was almost too much for me to bear! " Turning to the Brahman, who was the chief actor in this horrid tragedy, a young fellow of about twenty-two,... | |
 | 1810 - 438 pagine
...at one end to a stake driven into the ground, and held dowu over the fire by men at the other. would have been shocking; but to see relations and neighbours...air of levity, was almost too much for me to bear ! ' Turning to the Brahman, who was the chief actor in this horrid tragedy, a young fellow of about... | |
 | 1809 - 448 pagine
...relations and neighhours do thls to one with whom the; had familiarly conversed not an hour hefore, and to do it with an air of levity, was almost too much for me to hear! " Turning to the Brahman, who was the chief actor in this horrid tragedy, a young fellow of ahout... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 718 pagine
...but a few minutes before. To have seen savage wolves thus tearing a human body, limb from limb, would have been shocking ; but to see relations and neighbours...familiarly conversed not an hour before, and to do it wiih an air of levity, was almost too much for me. to bear. " You expect, perhaps to hear, that this... | |
 | 1816 - 408 pagine
...thus tearing a human body limb from limb, would have been shocking; but to see relations and neighbors do this to one with whom they had familiarly conversed...air of levity, was almost too much for me to bear. "Yon expect to hear perhaps, that this unhappy victim was the wife of some Brahmin of high caste. She... | |
 | 1816 - 408 pagine
...shocking: but to see relations and neighbors do this to one with whom they had familiarly conversed n:it an hour before, and to do it with an air of levity, was almost too much for me to bear. "You expert to hear perhaps, that this unhappy victim was the wife of some Brahmin of hig1h caste. She was... | |
 | John Poynder - 1827 - 286 pagine
...few minutes " before. To have seen savage wolves thus tearing " a human body limb from limb, would have been " shocking ; but to see relations and neighbours do " this to one with whom they had familiarly con" versed not an hour before, and to do it with an " air of levity, was almost too much for me to... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 410 pagine
...but a few minutes before. To have seen savage wolves thus tearing a human body limb from limb, would have been shocking ; but to see relations and neighbours...to do it with an air of levity, was almost too much to bear. " Turning to the Brahman, who was the chief actor in this horrid tragedy, a young fellow of... | |
 | 1820 - 674 pagine
...tearing a human body limb from limb, would have been shocking; but to see neighbours and relations do this to one, with whom they had familiarly conversed not an hour before, and do it with an air of levity, was almost too much for me to bear. Turning to the Brahmin who was the... | |
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