 | Edward William Whitaker - 1795 - 318 pages
..." fields of Phocis and Bosotia were in" ftantly covered by a deluge of barba" rians, who maflacred the males of an " age to bear arms, and drove away...cattle of the flaming villages. The •¥ " travellers 62 A general and connected !* 5 travellers who vifited Greece feveral " years afterwards could eafily... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 592 pages
...— The fertile fields of Phocis and Beotia were covered with a deluge of barbarians, who massacred the males of an age to bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females with the spoil and cattle of the flaming villages." The whole territory of Athens was blasted by the baleful... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 pages
...— The fertile fields of Phocis and Beotia were covered with a deluge of barbarians, who massacred the males of an age to bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females with the spoil and cattle of the flaming villages." The whole territory of Athens was blasted by the baleful... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...History of the Christian Church. [cH. nr. instantly covered by a deluge of Barbarians, who massacred the males of an age to bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females, with the spoil and cattle, to the flaming villages. Corinth, Argos, Sparta, yielded without resistance to the... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...Phocis and Boeotia," says Gibbon, " were instantly covered by a deluge of Barbarians, who massacred the males of an age to bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females, with the spoil and cattle, to the flaming villages. Corinth, Argos, Sparta, yielded without resistance to the... | |
 | William Cuninghame - 1817 - 444 pages
...The fertile fields of Phocis and Baeotia were covered by a deluge of " barba" rians, who massacred the males of an age to " bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females, " with the spoil and cattle of the flaming villages." — "The whole territory of Attica, from the pro"' montory... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1821 - 550 pages
...7.] thejirst Trumpet. 106 '* and Bceotia were covered with a deluge of barba" rians, who massacred the males of an age to bear " arms, and drove away the beautiful females with " the spoil and cattle of the flaming villages. The " travellers who visited Greece several years after"... | |
 | John Fry - 1825 - 642 pages
...fertile fields of Phocis and Boeotia were instantly covered with a deluge of barbarians ; who massacred the males of an age to bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females, with the spoil and cattle of the flaming villages." Athens submitted to Alaric ; — " the whole territory of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...fertile fields of Phocis and Ba?otia were instantly covered by a deluge of Barbarians, who massacred the males of an age to bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females, with the spoil and cattle of the flaming villages. The travellers, who visited Greece several years afterwards,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1828 - 484 pages
...fertile fields of Phocis and Boeotia were instantly covered by a deluge of barbarians ; who massacred the males of an age to bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females with the spoil and cattle of the flaming villages. The travellers, who visited Greece several years afterward,... | |
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Alaric; and the fertile fields of Phocis and Boeotia were instantly covered by a deluge of barbarians, who massacred the males of an age to bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females, with the spoil and cattle of the flaming villages. 
