 ... up the springs that supplied them; and it became necessary, in order to have water, to go down to the river Guayra, which was considerably swelled ; and then vessels to convey the water were wanting. There remained a duty to be fulfilled toward the...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 2751819Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 596 lehte
...swelled; and then vessels to convey the water were wanting. ' There remained a duty to be fulfilled toward the dead, enjoined at once by piety, and the dread...between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several davs. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties, which... | |
 | 1820 - 848 lehte
...swelled ; and then vessels to convey the water were wanting. There remained a duty to be fulfilled toward the dead, enjoined at once by piety, and the dread...inter so many thousand corpses, half-buried under •Che ruins, commissaries were appointed to burn the bodies : and for this purpose funeral piles were... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 290 lehte
...vessels could not be found for its conveyance. There remained a duty towards the dead to be fulfilled, enjoined at once by piety and the dread of infection....being impossible to inter so many thousand corpses, commissaries were appointed to burn the bodies, for which purpose funeral piles were erected between... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 lehte
...water, to go down to the river Guayra, which was considerably swelled ; and then vessels to convey th° water w'ere wanting. There remained a duty to be fulfilled...being impossible to inter so many thousand corpses, half buried under the ruins, commissaries were appointed to burn the bodies : and for this, purpose,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 lehte
...swelled; and then vessels to convey the water were wanting. " There remained a duty to be fulfilled toward the dead, enjoined at once by piety, and the dread...ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so manypublic calamities,the people devoted themselves to those religious duties, which they thought were... | |
 | Charles Stuart Cochrane - 1825 - 552 lehte
...that supplied them ; and it became necessary, in order to have water, to go down to the river Guayra, which was considerably swelled ; and then vessels,...being impossible to inter so many thousand corpses, half buried under the ruins, commissaries were appointed to burn the bodies ; and for this purpose... | |
 | Charles Stuart Cochrane - 1825 - 548 lehte
...that supplied them ; and it became necessary, in order to have water, to go down to the river Guayra, which was considerably swelled ; and then vessels,...being impossible to inter so many thousand corpses, half buried under the ruins, commissaries were appointed to burn the bodies ; and for this purpose... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray - 1833 - 386 lehte
...ruins, commissioners were appointed to burn them. Funeralpiles were erected among the heaps of rubbish. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people ardently engaged in the religious exercises which they thought best adapted to appease the anger of... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 180 lehte
...there were no vessels for drawing it. burn them. Funeral piles were erected among the heaps of rubbish. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people ardently engaged in the religious exercises which they thought best adapted to appease the anger of... | |
 | 1838 - 534 lehte
...that supplied them ; and it became necessary, in order to have water, to go down to the river Gunyra, which was considerably swelled ; and then vessels...impossible to inter so many thousand corpses, half-buried anderthe ruins, commissnries were appointed to burn the bodies; and for this purpose funeral piles... | |
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