 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 páginas
...smallness 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...chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and... | |
 | John Garrett - 1865 - 366 páginas
...lives, and retired to rest. ' Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular afrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which...chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 páginas
...smallness 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...chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 páginas
...smallness 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...chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 300 páginas
...smallness 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...chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and... | |
 | Elizabeth Spooner - 1867 - 170 páginas
...smallness of the treasures which he had found, but promised to spare their lives, and retired to rest. Then was committed that great crime, memorable for...chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 páginas
...smallness 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...chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close 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... | |
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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 at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night... 
