Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5G. Bell and Sons, 1884 |
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Page 70
... anchor - smiths and other smiths ; block - makers , carvers , gun - smiths , ship- chandlers , ship - carvers , and the like . The masters of those , perhaps , might live upon their substance , but the traders were universally at a stop ...
... anchor - smiths and other smiths ; block - makers , carvers , gun - smiths , ship- chandlers , ship - carvers , and the like . The masters of those , perhaps , might live upon their substance , but the traders were universally at a stop ...
Page 78
... anchor , pointing down the river a good way below the town ; and do you see , says he , eight or ten ships lie at the chain there , and at anchor yonder , A POOR WATERMAN'S TRUST IN PROVidence . 79 pointing above 78 THE PLAGUE IN LONDON .
... anchor , pointing down the river a good way below the town ; and do you see , says he , eight or ten ships lie at the chain there , and at anchor yonder , A POOR WATERMAN'S TRUST IN PROVidence . 79 pointing above 78 THE PLAGUE IN LONDON .
Page 178
... anchor for a time short of the Pool , or fresh water part of the river , even as low as the river Med- way , where several of them ran in , and others lay at the Nore , and in the Hope below Gravesend ; so that by the latter end of ...
... anchor for a time short of the Pool , or fresh water part of the river , even as low as the river Med- way , where several of them ran in , and others lay at the Nore , and in the Hope below Gravesend ; so that by the latter end of ...
Page 270
... anchor , and the openness of the place . So that upon the whole it seems plain to me , that all the dismal things the ancients told us of Britain , and her terrible shores , arose from the infancy of marine knowledge , and the weakness ...
... anchor , and the openness of the place . So that upon the whole it seems plain to me , that all the dismal things the ancients told us of Britain , and her terrible shores , arose from the infancy of marine knowledge , and the weakness ...
Page 280
... anchor could hold . Even the ships in the river Thames were all blown away from their moorings , and from Execution Dock to Limehouse Hole there was but four ships that rid it out , the rest were driven down into the Bite , as the ...
... anchor could hold . Even the ships in the river Thames were all blown away from their moorings , and from Execution Dock to Limehouse Hole there was but four ships that rid it out , the rest were driven down into the Bite , as the ...
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Page 11 - I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress : my God ; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Page 326 - The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done His marvellous works : that they ought to be had in remembrance.
Page 11 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day : nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 12 - Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, Even the most High, thy habitation ; There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.