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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... called them , as I was ; that I ought indeed to submit to it as a work of heaven , if I had been any way disabled by distempers or diseases , and that then not being able to go , I ought to acquiesce in the direction of Him , who ...
... called them , as I was ; that I ought indeed to submit to it as a work of heaven , if I had been any way disabled by distempers or diseases , and that then not being able to go , I ought to acquiesce in the direction of Him , who ...
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... called the city , or within the walls , that was not yet much infected ; but in the whole , the face of things , I say , was much altered ; sorrow and sadness sat upon every face , and though some part were not yet overwhelmed , yet all ...
... called the city , or within the walls , that was not yet much infected ; but in the whole , the face of things , I say , was much altered ; sorrow and sadness sat upon every face , and though some part were not yet overwhelmed , yet all ...
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... distemper , it was a mere desolating of some of the streets but the fright was not yet near so great in the city , abstractedly so called ; and particularly because , though they were at first in a most inexpressible consterna-
... distemper , it was a mere desolating of some of the streets but the fright was not yet near so great in the city , abstractedly so called ; and particularly because , though they were at first in a most inexpressible consterna-
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... called , Fair Warning ; another , Britain's Remembrancer , and many such ; all , or most part of which , foretold directly or covertly , the ruin of the city ; nay , some were so enthusiastically bold , as to run about the streets with ...
... called , Fair Warning ; another , Britain's Remembrancer , and many such ; all , or most part of which , foretold directly or covertly , the ruin of the city ; nay , some were so enthusiastically bold , as to run about the streets with ...
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... the poor people were terrified by the force of their own imagination . However , she turned to me , called me profane fellow , and a scoffer , told me that it was a time of God's anger , and dreadful judgments were approaching , and o 2.
... the poor people were terrified by the force of their own imagination . However , she turned to me , called me profane fellow , and a scoffer , told me that it was a time of God's anger , and dreadful judgments were approaching , and o 2.
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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.