The Marquis of Pombal

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Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 - 387 Seiten
 

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Seite 58 - all likewise full of people, who had retired thither for the same purpose) were all swallowed up as in a whirlpool, and never more appeared. " This last dreadful incident I did not see with my own eyes, as it passed three or four stones' throws from the spot where -I
Seite 55 - of bishops; several priests, who had run from the altars in their sacerdotal vestments, in the midst of their celebrating mass; ladies half-dressed, and some without shoes. All these, whom their mutual danger had here assembled as to a place of safety, were on their knees at prayers, with the terrors of death in their countenances,
Seite 66 - The whole number of persons that perished, including those who were burnt, or afterwards crushed to death whilst digging in the ruins, is supposed, on the lowest calculation, to amount to more than sixty thousand; and though the damage in other respects cannot be computed, yet you may form some idea of it when I assure
Seite 60 - rushed in with so much rapidity that they were obliged to gallop as fast as possible to the upper grounds for fear of being carried away. "I was now in such a situation that I knew not which way to turn myself. If I remained there, I was in danger from the sea; if I retired
Seite 65 - had his eyes turned towards the flames, and stood looking on with silent grief, which was only interrupted by the cries and shrieks of women and children, calling on the saints and angels for succour, whenever the earth began to tremble, which was so often this
Seite 105 - under penalty of excommunication to all, but especially to the Jesuits, to make slaves of the Indians, to sell them, barter or give them away, to separate them from their wives and children, to rob them of their property, to transport them from their native soil,
Seite 57 - whereby many persons were killed on the spot, and others mortally wounded. You may judge of the force of this shock when I inform you it was so violent that I could scarce keep on my knees, but it was attended with some circumstances still more dreadful than the former. On a sudden I heard a general outcry,
Seite 111 - The execution of this order has been interrupted by his Most Faithful Majesty's indisposition, it being the custom of this Court to put on gala when any of the royal family is blooded. When I went to Court to inquire after his Majesty's health, I was there informed that the king, on Sunday night, the
Seite 67 - to have been more fatal to me, as I contracted a fever by it, but of which, God be praised, I soon got the better. However, this made me so cautious for the future that I avoided passing near certain places, where the stench was so excessive that people began to
Seite 59 - smells, a dizziness in their heads, a sickness in their stomachs, and difficulty of respiration ; not that I felt any such symptoms myself. " I had not been long in the area of St. Paul's when I felt the third shock, which

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