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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... relations in North- amptonshire , whence our family first came from ; and par- ticularly , I had an only sister in Lincolnshire , very willing to receive and entertain me . My brother , who had already sent his wife and two 1 EARNESTLY ...
... relations in North- amptonshire , whence our family first came from ; and par- ticularly , I had an only sister in Lincolnshire , very willing to receive and entertain me . My brother , who had already sent his wife and two 1 EARNESTLY ...
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... 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 heart in the world to hear them . Tears and lamentations were seen almost in every house ...
... 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 heart in the world to hear them . Tears and lamentations were seen almost in every house ...
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... relations such people give every day of what they have seen ; and every one was so positive of their having seen what they pretended to see , that there was no contradicting them , without breach of friendship , or being accounted rude ...
... relations such people give every day of what they have seen ; and every one was so positive of their having seen what they pretended to see , that there was no contradicting them , without breach of friendship , or being accounted rude ...
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... relations only ; so that , in a word , those people who were really serious and religious , applied them- selves in a truly Christian manner to the proper work of repentance and humiliation , as a Christian people ought to do . Again ...
... relations only ; so that , in a word , those people who were really serious and religious , applied them- selves in a truly Christian manner to the proper work of repentance and humiliation , as a Christian people ought to do . Again ...
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... relations , and by the terror of being imprisoned as they were . I remember , and , while I am writing this story , I think I hear the very sound of it : a certain lady had an only daughter , a young maiden about nineteen years old ...
... relations , and by the terror of being imprisoned as they were . I remember , and , while I am writing this story , I think I hear the very sound of it : a certain lady had an only daughter , a young maiden about nineteen years old ...
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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.