 | 1830 - 562 pages
...smaller scale, fully equal to Robespierre. One extract will suffice as a specimen of this savage. ' . ' He once took a prisoner whom he ordered to be sewed...•was expressing a hope that he was not a captive of Vicente Gomez. " Why, father?" said the latter. " Because he is cruel and sanguinary, and it is said,... | |
 | 1830 - 436 pages
...to be sewed up in a wet hide, and exposed to the sun, by the heat of which it soon dried and sbrunk, and the wretched victim died in an agony which cannot...was expressing a hope that he was not a captive of Vicente Gomez. ' Wby, father ?' said the latter. ' Because be is crnel and sanguinary ; and it is said,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 564 pages
...smaller scale, fully equal to Robespierre. One extract will suffice as a specimen of this savage. ' He once took a prisoner whom he ordered to be sewed...Another he ordered to be buried in the sand up to Ws chin, and then directed the manoeuvres of two hundred cavalry over his head. A priest fell into... | |
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At the town of Babidcora our traveller met with one of the revolutionary half-pay colonels in the Mexican army, of the name of Vicente Gomez, a monster, on a smaller scale, fully equal to Robespierre. One extract will suffice as a specimen of this savage.... 