I have seen no houses in the Islands much to be envied for convenience or magnificence, yet they bare testimony to the progress of arts and civility, as they shew that rapine and surprise are no longer dreaded, and are much more commodious than the ancient fortresses.
42.
Ill-advisedly, however, as some say, or dominated by a desire to rule without let or hindrance, as others say, they placed themselves under the shelter of a flag that pictured a bear, an animal that we took as the emblem of rapine and force.
43.
Marcus Licinius Crassus was born into a wealthy Roman family around the year 115 BC, and acquired an enormous fortune through ( in the words of Plutarch ) " fire and rapine . " One of his most lucrative schemes took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department.
44.
One thing I did find, when I worked out the Italian word for robbery is rapine, is there was a robbery at the Chase Manhattan Bank in Rome on 27 November 1979, by those known as Banda della Magliana, who seem to be linked to the Mafia, but I cannot be sure.
45.
Referring to Pilate's governance, Philo further describes " his corruption, and his acts of insolence, and his rapine, and his habit of insulting people, and his cruelty, and his continual murders of people untried and uncondemned, and his never ending, and gratuitous, and most grievous inhumanity ".
46.
During the 1820s, Rapine was a member of the prestigious society, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.
47.
They represented everywhere government by force as opposed to government by law . Yet a government by force can not be maintained without the aid of an intellectual element . Hence there grew up, what has been rare in the history of the world, a kind of tolerance in the midst of cruelty, tyranny and rapine.
48.
Norwich deplores large acts of barbarity or rapine ( the Fourth Crusade was " an obscenity " ), and sometimes of individual murder, but is forced _ if he is to avoid the sort of wholesale indictment of the Byzantine age and world that was common among Victorian historians _ at least to consider their acts on something of a comparative scale.
49.
Horatio Seymour, while running for the governorship of New York, cast the Emancipation Proclamation as a call for slaves to commit extreme acts of violence on all white southerners, saying it was " a proposal for the butchery of women and children, for scenes of lust and rapine, and of arson and murder, which would invoke the interference of civilized Europe ".
50.
The monks fled or were slaughtered while Bishop Higbald sought refuge on the mainland and a chronicler recorded-" On the 8th June, the harrying of the heathen miserably destroyed God's church by rapine and slaughter . " British history changed forever that day and three hundred years of Viking raids, battles and settlement were to persist until William the Conqueror defeated King Harold at Hastings in 1066.
