...vvuhout pity or cr rcmorfe ; and the ignominious b.fhes, which they had formerly received, were warned away in the blood of the guilty, or obnoxious families. The matrons and virgins of Rome were expofed to injuries more dreadful* in the apprehenfion of chattily, than death itfelf; and the ecclefialtical...

...without pity or remorfe ; and the ignominious lafhes, which they had formerly received, were wafhed away in the blood of the guilty, or obnoxious, families. The matrons and virgins of Rome were expofed to injuries more dreadful, in the apprehenfion of chaftity, than death itfclfj and the ecclefiaftical...

...Rome. Annal. Eccles. AD 410. No 16 — 44. revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised c H .« p without pity or remorse ; and the ignominious lashes,...received, were washed away in the blood of the guilty, or obr noxious, families, The matrons and uirgins of Rome were exposed to injuries more dreadful, in the...

...citizens was sometimes converted into fury ; and whenever the Barbarians were provoked by opposition, they extended the promiscuous massacre to the feeble,...the innocent, and the helpless. The private revenge * Jerom (torn. ip 121. ad Prineipiarn) hat applied to the sack of Rome all the strong expressions of...

...citizens was sometimes converted into fury; and whenever the barbarians were provoked by opposition, they extended the promiscuous massacre to the feeble,...helpless. The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was * Jerom (tom, i, p. 121, ad Principiam) has applied to the sack of Bome all the strong expressions...

...they extended the promiscu- CHAP. (ms massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the help- XXX1less. The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised...in the apprehension of chastity, than death itself; and the ecclesiastical historian has selected an example of female virtue, for the admiration of future...

...arrived. Alaric, king of the Goths, sacked the city of Rome, and then, says Gibbon, the historian, " The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised...in the blood of the guilty or obnoxious families." — As " Rome was" J/ten, so Georgia may be in a future day, not far distant. Alaric was not the only...

...destruction. On the part of the slaves revenge embraced the moment, and secured the victim ; the white women were exposed to injuries more dreadful, in the apprehension of chastity, than death itself; and a strict interpretation of the evidence of historians would swell the loss of St. Domingo to more...

..." fury; and whenever the barbarians were pro" voked by opposition, they extended the promis" cuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and " the helpless. The private revenge," moreover, " of forty thousand slaves, was exercised without " pity or remorse; and the ignominious...

...without burial during the general consternation. Whenever the Barbarians were provoked by opposition, they extended the promiscuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless. They pillaged and set fire to the city, and gratified their sensual appetites without discrimination...