| John Leavitt Stevens - Sweden - 1884 - 448 pages
...poetry no pencil. Neither innocent childhood nor helpless old age, neither youth, sex, rank, nor beauty, could disarm the fury of the conquerors. Wives were...the feet of their parents, and the defenceless sex exposed to the double sacrifice of virtue and life. No situation, however secure or however sacred,... | |
| John Leavitt Stevens - Sweden - 1884 - 452 pages
...poetry no pencil. Neither innocent childhood nor helpless old age, neither youth, sex, rank, nor beauty, could disarm the fury of the conquerors. Wives were...the feet of their parents, and the defenceless sex exposed to the double sacrifice of virtue and life. No situation, however secure or however sacred,... | |
| Friedrich Schiller - Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 - 1884 - 402 pages
...no pencil. Neither innocent childhood, nor helpless old age ; neither youth, sex, rank, nor beauty could disarm the fury of the conquerors. Wives were abused in the arms of their husbands, (laughters at the feet of their parents ; and the defenceless sex exposed to the double sacrifice of... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Europe - 1884 - 420 pages
...They spared neither the helplessness of old age, nor the feebleness of childhood. Wives were outraged in the arms of their husbands, daughters at the feet of their parents; neither rank, age, sex, nor beauty escaped, or could disarm the fury of the conquerors. In a single... | |
| Frances Emory Tower - Bible - 1892 - 584 pages
...no pencil. Neither innocent childhood, nor helpless old age ; neither youth, sex, rank, nor beauty, could disarm the fury of the conquerors. Wives were...husbands, daughters at the feet of their parents ; and the defenseless sex exposed to the double sacrifice of virtue and of life. No situation, however obscure... | |
| John Nicholas Lenker - Lutheran Church - 1893 - 1032 pages
...Schiller says, "commenced a scene of horrors for which history has no language — poetry no pencil. Wives were abused in the arms of their husbands; daughters...the feet of their parents; and the defenceless sex exposed to the double sacrifice of virtue and of life. The Croats amused themselves with throwing children... | |
| Friedrich Schiller - Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 - 1895 - 396 pages
...no pencil. Neither innocent childhood, nor helpless old age ; neither youth, sex, rank, nor beauty could disarm the fury of the conquerors. Wives were...the feet of their parents ; and the defenceless sex exposed to the double sacrifice of virtue and life. No situation, however obscure, or however sacred,... | |
| 1895 - 548 pages
...ncithev rank nor beauty, could disarm the fury of the conquerors. Wives were dishonored in the very arms of their husbands, daughters at the feet of their parents, and the defenceless sex exposed to the double loss of virtue and life. . . . Fifty-three women were found in a single church... | |
| Friedrich Schiller - 1901 - 880 pages
...no pencil. Neither innocent childhood, nor helpless old age ; neither youth, sex, rank, nor beauty could disarm the fury of the conquerors. Wives were...the feet of their parents ; and the defenceless sex exposed to the double sacrifice of 'virtue and life. No situation, however obscure, or however sacred,... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 714 pages
...poetry no pencil. Neither innocent childhood nor hapless old age, neither youth, sex, rank, nor beauty could disarm the fury of the conquerors. Wives were...sacrifice of virtue and life. No situation, however obscure or however sacred, escaped the rapacity of the enemy. In a single church fifty-three women... | |
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