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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... in the late Dreadful Tempest , both by Sea and Land Defoe's Poetical Essay on the Storm . The True - born Englishman : a Satire Page 1 207 · · 249 · 413 · 423 ADVERTISEMENT . THE History of the Great Plague in London.
... in the late Dreadful Tempest , both by Sea and Land Defoe's Poetical Essay on the Storm . The True - born Englishman : a Satire Page 1 207 · · 249 · 413 · 423 ADVERTISEMENT . THE History of the Great Plague in London.
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... land , and lived on board the ships , were not entirely safe from the infection ; for many died , and were thrown overboard into the river , some in coffins , and some , as I heard , without coffins , whose bodies were seen sometimes to ...
... land , and lived on board the ships , were not entirely safe from the infection ; for many died , and were thrown overboard into the river , some in coffins , and some , as I heard , without coffins , whose bodies were seen sometimes to ...
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... lands , and out of whom they made the rents of their farms ; and to be so cruel to the inhabitants of London , or to any of those by whom they gained so much , was very hard ; and they would be loath to have it remembered hereafter ...
... lands , and out of whom they made the rents of their farms ; and to be so cruel to the inhabitants of London , or to any of those by whom they gained so much , was very hard ; and they would be loath to have it remembered hereafter ...
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... land not till he came about the Falcon - stairs , where landing , and finding no people there , it being in the night , he ran about the streets there naked as he was , for a good while , when , it being by that time high water , he ...
... land not till he came about the Falcon - stairs , where landing , and finding no people there , it being in the night , he ran about the streets there naked as he was , for a good while , when , it being by that time high water , he ...
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... land carriage began to fail , and when the people began to be sick of coming from many places in the country . This also was much of it owing to the prudence and con- duct of the lord mayor , who took such care to keep the masters and ...
... land carriage began to fail , and when the people began to be sick of coming from many places in the country . This also was much of it owing to the prudence and con- duct of the lord mayor , who took such care to keep the masters and ...
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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.