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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... houses , had removed for fear of the 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 ...
... houses , had removed for fear of the 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 ...
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... HOUSES SHUT UP . 15 dren at the windows and doors of their houses , where their nearest relations were , perhaps dying , or just dead , were so frequent to be heard , as we passed the streets , that it was enough to pierce the stoutest ...
... HOUSES SHUT UP . 15 dren at the windows and doors of their houses , where their nearest relations were , perhaps dying , or just dead , were so frequent to be heard , as we passed the streets , that it was enough to pierce the stoutest ...
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... houses in the parishes of St. Giles's in the Fields , St. Martin's , St. Cle- ment's Danes , & c . , and it was with good success , for in several streets where the plague broke out , upon strict guarding the houses that were infected ...
... houses in the parishes of St. Giles's in the Fields , St. Martin's , St. Cle- ment's Danes , & c . , and it was with good success , for in several streets where the plague broke out , upon strict guarding the houses that were infected ...
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... house there be appointed two watchmen , one for every day , and the other for the night , and that these watchmen have a special care that no person go in or out of such infected houses whereof they have the charge , upon pain of severe ...
... house there be appointed two watchmen , one for every day , and the other for the night , and that these watchmen have a special care that no person go in or out of such infected houses whereof they have the charge , upon pain of severe ...
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... HOUSES AND SICK PERSONS . 31 their limits to join with the searchers for the view of the body , to the end there may ... HOUSES , AND PERSONS SICK OF THE PLAGUE . Notice to be given of the Sickness . THE master of every house as soon as ...
... HOUSES AND SICK PERSONS . 31 their limits to join with the searchers for the view of the body , to the end there may ... HOUSES , AND PERSONS SICK OF THE PLAGUE . Notice to be given of the Sickness . THE master of every house as soon as ...
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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.