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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... carrying on my business and shop ; which was considerable , and in which was embarked all my effects in the world ; and the other was the preservation of my life in so dismal a calamity , as I saw apparently was coming upon the whole ...
... carrying on my business and shop ; which was considerable , and in which was embarked all my effects in the world ; and the other was the preservation of my life in so dismal a calamity , as I saw apparently was coming upon the whole ...
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... carry a soldier's tent with us , and so lie in the fields , the weather being very warm , and no danger from taking cold . I ... carried into so many country towns and houses , as it was , to the great damage , and indeed to the ruin of ...
... carry a soldier's tent with us , and so lie in the fields , the weather being very warm , and no danger from taking cold . I ... carried into so many country towns and houses , as it was , to the great damage , and indeed to the ruin of ...
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... carrying to be buried . And there again , heaps of dead bodies lying unburied and the like ; just as the im- agination of the poor terrified people furnished them with matter to work upon . So hypochondriac fancies represent Ships ...
... carrying to be buried . And there again , heaps of dead bodies lying unburied and the like ; just as the im- agination of the poor terrified people furnished them with matter to work upon . So hypochondriac fancies represent Ships ...
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... carried with their masters and mistresses into the country ; and had not public charity provided for these poor creatures , whose number was exceeding great , and in all cases of this nature must be so , they would have been in the ...
... carried with their masters and mistresses into the country ; and had not public charity provided for these poor creatures , whose number was exceeding great , and in all cases of this nature must be so , they would have been in the ...
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... carried away in the dead - carts , and thrown into the common graves of every parish with these hellish charms and trumpery hanging about their necks , remains to be spoken of as we go along . All this was the effect of the hurry the ...
... carried away in the dead - carts , and thrown into the common graves of every parish with these hellish charms and trumpery hanging about their necks , remains to be spoken of as we go along . All this was the effect of the hurry 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.