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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... manner , thus : PLAGUE , 2. PARISHES INFECTED , 1 . The people showed a great concern at this , and began to be alarmed all over the town , and the more , because in the last week in December , 1664 , another man died in the same house ...
... manner , thus : PLAGUE , 2. PARISHES INFECTED , 1 . The people showed a great concern at this , and began to be alarmed all over the town , and the more , because in the last week in December , 1664 , another man died in the same house ...
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... manner , and the bills rise high , the articles of the fever , spotted fever , and teeth , began to swell : for all that could conceal their distempers , did it to prevent their neighbours shunning and refusing to converse with them ...
... manner , and the bills rise high , the articles of the fever , spotted fever , and teeth , began to swell : for all that could conceal their distempers , did it to prevent their neighbours shunning and refusing to converse with them ...
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... manner of making their choice , and therefore I desire this account may pass with them rather for a direction to them- selves to act by , than a history of my actings , seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what ...
... manner of making their choice , and therefore I desire this account may pass with them rather for a direction to them- selves to act by , than a history of my actings , seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what ...
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... manner all the horses did ; for there was hardly a horse to be bought or hired in the whole city , for some weeks . Once I resolved to travel on foot with one servant ; and as many did , lie at no inn , but carry a soldier's tent with ...
... manner all the horses did ; for there was hardly a horse to be bought or hired in the whole city , for some weeks . Once I resolved to travel on foot with one servant ; and as many did , lie at no inn , but carry a soldier's tent with ...
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... manner , that I began to think there would be really none but magis- trates and servants left in the city . As they fled now out of the city , so I should observe , that the court removed early , viz . , in the month of June , and went ...
... manner , that I began to think there would be really none but magis- trates and servants left in the city . As they fled now out of the city , so I should observe , that the court removed early , viz . , in the month of June , and went ...
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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.