 Commissaries were appointed to burn the bodies; and, for this purpose, funeral piles were erected between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties which...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 2751819Full view - About this book
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 lehte
...they thought were the most fitted to appease the wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sung funeral hymns ; others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the 16 streets. In this town was now repeated what had been remarked in the province of Quito, after the... | |
 | 1820 - 848 lehte
...they thought were the most fitted to appease the wrath of heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sung funeral hymns ; others, in a state of distraction,...this town was now repeated what had been remarked m the province of Quito, after the tremendous earthquake of 1797; a number of marriages were contracted... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 lehte
...sung funeral hymns; others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the street?. la this town was now repeated what had been remarked...province of Quito, after the tremendous earthquake ot 1797; a number of marriages were contracted between persons who had neglected for. many years to... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 lehte
...piety and the dread of infection. It being impossible to inter so many thousand corpses, half buried under the ruins, commissaries were appointed to burn...tremendous earthquake of 1797 ; a number of marriages 268 AMERICAN VARIETIES, &C. were contracted between persons who had neglected for many years to sanction... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 464 lehte
...thought were the most fitted to appease the wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sang funeral hymns; others, in a state of distraction,...province of Quito after the tremendous earthquake of 1797;—a number of marriages were contracted, between persons who had neglected for many years to... | |
 | Charles Stuart Cochrane - 1825 - 552 lehte
...which they thought most fitted to appease the wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sang funeral hymns ; others, in a state of distraction,...province of Quito, after the tremendous earthquake of 1 797 ; a number of marriages were contracted between persons who had neglected for many years to sanction... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 lehte
...they thought were the most fitted to appease the wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sung funeral hymns; others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the streets. In thia town was now repeated what had been remarked in the province of Quito, after the tremendous earthquake... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray - 1832 - 436 lehte
...thought best adapted to appease the anger of heaven. Some walked in bodies chanting funeral-hymns, while others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the streets. In this city was now repeated what had taken place in the province of Quito after the dreadful earthquake of... | |
 | 1838 - 534 lehte
...thought were the most fitted to appease the wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sang funeral hymns ; others, in a state of distraction,...province of Quito, after the tremendous earthquake of 1767 ; a number of marriages were contracted between persons, who had neglected for many years to sanction... | |
 | W. Mullinger Higgins - 1842 - 426 lehte
...propitiate by unmeaning ceremonies and misdirected confessions the divine anger. Some, it is said, assembling in procession, sung funeral hymns'; others^...distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the streets. Children were found by parents by whom they had never till then been acknowledged ; restitutions were... | |
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