| Edmund Burke - History - 1816 - 838 pages
...general oppression. In conjunction with that, no other proofs of the exercise of tyranny require 203 require to be specified ; and one single instance,...hands of their parent, succeeded by the execution uf the woman herself, and three females mure, whose limbs being bound, and a heavy stone tied round... | |
| Jonathan Forbes - Sri Lanka - 1841 - 500 pages
...last stage of individual depravity and wickedness, the obliteration of every trace of consciejice, and the complete extinction of human feeling. " In...of each, they were thrown into a lake and drowned." 352 DEATH OF EHEYLAPOLA. This was in 1814 ; early the following year the British army took possession... | |
| Charles Pridham - Sri Lanka - 1849 - 438 pages
...extinction of human feeling. In the deplorable fate of the wife and children of Kheylapola Adigaar, these assertions are fully substantiated, in which...execution of the woman herself and three females, whose limbs being bound and a heavy stone tied round the neck of each, they were thrown into a lake... | |
| Charles Pridham - Sri Lanka - 1849 - 418 pages
...extinction of human feeling. In the deplorable fate of the wife and children of Kheylapola Adigaar, these assertions are fully substantiated, in which...execution of the woman herself and three females, whose limbs being bound and a heavy stone tied round the neck of each, they were thrown into a lake... | |
| P. E. Pieris - Sri Lanka - 2001 - 270 pages
...complete extinction of human feeling. In the deplorable fate of the wife and children of Ehelepola Adikar, these assertions are fully substantiated ;...of each, they were thrown into a lake and drowned." The Declaration was published on the 2nd March, the day on which the Convention was accepted. Brownrigg... | |
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