 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 lehte
...between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties,...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 lehte
...between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties,...wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sang funeral hymns ; others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the streets.... | |
 | 1819 - 596 lehte
...between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several davs. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties,...wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sang funeral hymns ; others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the streets.... | |
 | 1819 - 480 lehte
...between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties,...to appease the wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in procession, sung funeral hymns ; others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the... | |
 | 1819 - 482 lehte
...between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those reli•gious duties,...to appease the wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in procession, sung funeral hymns ; others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the... | |
 | 1820 - 848 lehte
...heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people deTOted themselves to those religious duties, which they thought...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... | |
 | William Bingley - 1820 - 368 lehte
...so many calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties, which they thought were most fitted to appease the wrath of heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sang funeral hymns : others, in a state of distraction, confessed their sins aloud in the streets.... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 lehte
...between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties...to appease the wrath of heaven. Some, assembling in procession, sung funeral hymns; others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 lehte
...between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties...to appease the wrath of heaven. Some, assembling in procession, sung funeral hymns : others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 lehte
...between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties,...wrath of Heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sang funeral hymns ; others, in a state of distraction, confessed themselves aloud in the streets.... | |
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It being impossible to inter so many thousand corpses, half-buried under the ruins, 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... 
