 The writers the best disposed to exaggerate their clemency have freely confessed that a cruel slaughter was made of the Romans, and that the streets of the city were filled with dead bodies, which remained without burial during the general consternation....  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 第316页作者：Edward Gibbon - 1811全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 页
...to exaggerate their clemency, had freely confessed, that a cruel slaughter was made of the Romans ; and that the streets of the city were filled with...whenever the Barbarians were provoked by opposition, CHAP. they extended the promiscuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless. The private... | |
 | Philip Allwood - 1829 - 538 页
...mency of the conquerors, have freely confessed, " that a cruel slaughter was made of the Romans; " and that the streets of the city were filled with...converted into " fury; and whenever the barbarians were pro" voked by opposition, they extended the promis" cuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and... | |
 | Alfred Addis - 1830 - 602 页
...streets of the city with dead bodies, which remained without burial during the general consternation. Whenever the Barbarians were provoked by opposition,...massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless. They pillaged and set fire to the city, and gratified their sensual appetites without discrimination... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 页
...confessed that (in the sack of Rome) a cruel slaughter was made of the Romans ; and that the streets were filled with dead bodies, which remained without...helpless. The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised without pity or remorse, and the iguominious lashes which they had formerly received, were... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 页
...confessed that (in the sack of Home) a cruel slaughter was made of the Romans ; and that the streets were filled with dead bodies, which remained without...the helpless. The private revenge of forty thousand • Gibbon's Hist. pp. 253— ?55. •lares was exercised without pity or remorse, and the ignominious... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 页
...Rome) a cruel slaughter was made of the Romans ; and that the streets were filled with dead Indies, which remained without burial during the general consternation....helpless. The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised without pity or remorse, and the ignominious lashes which they had formerly received, were... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - 1841 - 376 页
...the streets of the city were filled with the dead bodies, which remained for a long time unburied. " The despair of the citizens was sometimes converted...massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless." This was attended with a general pillage of its immense treasures, the spoils of the world ; and the... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - 1841 - 368 页
...the streets of the city were filled with the dead bodies, which remained for a long time unburied. " The despair of the citizens was sometimes converted...massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless." This was attended with a general pillage of its immense treasures, the spoils G 5 of the world ; and... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1846 - 414 页
...under the standard of Alaric, were strangers to the name, or at least to the faith, of Christ; and the streets of the city were filled with dead bodies,...helpless. The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised without pity or remorse; and the ignominious lashes which they had formerly re-ceived, were... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1846 - 414 页
...under the standard of Alaric, were strangers to the name, or at least to the faith, of Christ ; and the streets of the city were filled with dead bodies,...helpless. The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised without pity or remorse ; and the ignominious lashes which they had formerly received, were... | |
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