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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... distemper : and then we were easy again for about six weeks , when none having died with any marks of infection , it was said the distemper was gone ; but after that , I think it was about the 12th of February , another died in another ...
... distemper : and then we were easy again for about six weeks , when none having died with any marks of infection , it was said the distemper was gone ; but after that , I think it was about the 12th of February , another died in another ...
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... distemper , not knowing that he was already infected . This was the beginning of May , yet the weather was tem- perate , variable , and cool enough , and people had still some hopes that which encouraged them was , that the city was ...
... distemper , not knowing that he was already infected . This was the beginning of May , yet the weather was tem- perate , variable , and cool enough , and people had still some hopes that which encouraged them was , that the city was ...
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... distemper had not reached to that side of the city , our neighbourhood continued very easy : but at the other end of the town their consternation was very great , and the richer sort of people , especially the nobility and gentry , from ...
... distemper had not reached to that side of the city , our neighbourhood continued very easy : but at the other end of the town their consternation was very great , and the richer sort of people , especially the nobility and gentry , from ...
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... distemper , and not knowing when I should go , he took other measures , and left me , so I was put off for that time ; and one way or other , I always found that to appoint to go away , was always crossed by some accident or other , so ...
... distemper , and not knowing when I should go , he took other measures , and left me , so I was put off for that time ; and one way or other , I always found that to appoint to go away , was always crossed by some accident or other , so ...
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... distemper , yet being very ill , both in my head and in my stomach , I was not without apprehension that I really was infected , but in about three days I grew better , the third night I rested well , sweated a little , and was much ...
... distemper , yet being very ill , both in my head and in my stomach , I was not without apprehension that I really was infected , but in about three days I grew better , the third night I rested well , sweated a little , and was much ...
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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.