 | John Dowling - 1845 - 698 Seiten
...treatment than the nobility, great numbers of them being daily seized for speaking disrespectfully of the tyrant, and either killed by his guards on...up in sacks and thrown into the sea, or dragged to prison, which by that means was so crowded that they soon died, suffocated with the stench and noisomeness... | |
 | John Dowling - 1871 - 962 Seiten
...treatment than the nobility, great numbers of them being daily seized for speaking disrespectfully of the tyrant, and either killed by his guards on...up in sacks and thrown into the sea, or dragged to prison, which by that means was so crowded that they soon died, suffocated with the stench and noisomeness... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1878 - 1146 Seiten
...the bow. All who spoke disrespectfully of the tyrant were immediately seized and either killed by the guards on the spot, or tied up in sacks and thrown into the sea. Such was the monster in the shape of a man, as portrayed by the pen of impartial history, by whose... | |
 | Moses Wolcott Redding - 1885 - 596 Seiten
...as great numbers of them were seized for speaking disrespectfully of the usurper, and either killed on the spot, or tied up in sacks and thrown into the sea. Such was the man, and such was the imperial ruler of whom Boniface earnestly solicited the title of... | |
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The populace met with no better treatment than the nobility, great numbers of them being daily seized for speaking disrespectfully of the tyrant, and either killed by his guards on the spot, or tied up in sacks and thrown into the sea, or dragged to... 