 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 páginas
...the smallness of the treasure he had found, but promised to spare their lives, and retired to rest. Then was committed that great crime, memorable for...memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it wa* followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 444 páginas
...smalmess of the treasure which he had found ; but promised to spare their lives, and retired to rest. Then was committed that great crime, memorable for...its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous refrribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and... | |
 | 1871 - 532 páginas
...feeble resistance the fort was taken, with many English prisoners. " Then and there," says Macaulay, " was committed that great crime, memorable for its...tremendous retribution by which it was followed." The prison was known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. It was twenty feet square — the air-holes... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 páginas
...own abridgment. BLACK HOLE OP CALCUTTA. THEN (after the taking of Fort William, Calcutta, in 1756) was committed that great crime, memorable for its...which it was followed. The English captives were left to the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 páginas
...Nabob of Bengal, quarrelled with the English at Calcutta, " and shut up a hundred and forty-six of them in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of ' The Black Hole.' The space was about twenty feet square, the air-holes were small. The captives were driven into the... | |
 | John Young Sargent - 1873 - 188 páginas
...never perhaps existed a people so thoroughly fitted by nature and by habit for a foreign yoke. 140. Then was committed that great crime, memorable for...atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution that followed it. The English captives were left to the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 244 páginas
...smallness of the treasure which he had found ; but promised to spare their 5 lives, and retired to rest. Then was committed that great crime, memorable for...captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guaids de- 10 termined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 páginas
...This is far more effective than if the sentence were written, Dupleix was the first man who saw, etc. "Then was committed that great crime, memorable for...tremendous retribution by which it was followed." —MACAULAY. The common order would be, Then that great crime was committed. " Like the Puritans, he... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 234 páginas
...resistance, and great numbers of the English fell into the hands of the conquerors. They were driven into the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. The space was only twenty feet square. The air-holes were small and obstructed. The number of the prisoners... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 páginas
...slaking, Thou shalt know God, and the gift that He gave. Anonymous. THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA.1 1756. :. Then was committed that great crime, memorable for...were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards i From Lord Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive, inserted by the permission of Messrs. Longmans, Green,... | |
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Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left to the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night... 
