| 1822 - 746 pages
...diseases of the human body. If we turn to observe the carnage of the field of battle, and for a moment listen to the cries of the wounded, and the groans of the dying, or behold garments rolled in blood, and the earth drinking in the purple streams of life, as they flow... | |
| 1822 - 880 pages
...nerves, the book containing this wonderful piece was lent out, and I had not the delight of listening to " the cries of the wounded, and the groans of the dying !" Next day, Sunday, we breakfasted later than usual, and the ladies were often reminded to make haste... | |
| 1846 - 580 pages
...broad-sword to death. Add to this, that when the work of deliberate butchery had ceased, no regard was had to the cries of the wounded and the groans of the dying — no surgeon was allowed to apply proper remedies for their recovery, and when any of these were... | |
| William Forsyth - 1853 - 682 pages
...circumstance, and few sights can be conceived of more thrilling interest than the march of a great arrriy in compact array. But follow that army to the battle-field....the artillery has ceased to thunder, Listen to the 182 CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON. CHAP. XXX. cries of the wounded and the groans of the dying : follow the... | |
| 1921 - 800 pages
...the soldiers were completely demoralized, because they had to pass an entire night awake, listening to the cries of the wounded and the groans of the dying. We see, therefore, that long before the dawn of modern civilization strategists knew that a well-functioning... | |
| William Forsyth, Sir Hudson Lowe - 1853 - 552 pages
...and foreign bayonets brought back the King whom she had driven into exile and proclaimed an outlaw. stern judgment upon those who without adequate and...are strewed with corpses and converted into a vast charnel-house. And what sorrow accompanies the tidings of every victory ! The child is fatherless,... | |
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