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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Page 113
... roof in form , and an upper floor , in which they lodged warm , for the weather began to be damp and cold in the beginning of September ; but this house being very well thatched , and the sides and roof very thick , kept out the cold ...
... roof in form , and an upper floor , in which they lodged warm , for the weather began to be damp and cold in the beginning of September ; but this house being very well thatched , and the sides and roof very thick , kept out the cold ...
Page 200
... roof of the house . But the time was not fully come that the city was to be purged with fire , nor was it far off , for within nine months more I saw it all lying in ashes ; when , as some of our quaking philosophers pretend , the seeds ...
... roof of the house . But the time was not fully come that the city was to be purged with fire , nor was it far off , for within nine months more I saw it all lying in ashes ; when , as some of our quaking philosophers pretend , the seeds ...
Page 228
... roofs , & c . " The following paragraph is taken from Mr. Rosewell's causes and cures of the pestilence , printed at London , in the year of the grcat plague 1665 - a year before the fire of London . " Is it not of the Lord that the ...
... roofs , & c . " The following paragraph is taken from Mr. Rosewell's causes and cures of the pestilence , printed at London , in the year of the grcat plague 1665 - a year before the fire of London . " Is it not of the Lord that the ...
Page 301
... roofs , and sixteen or twenty whole houses in the out- parts . Under the disaster of this article , it seems most ... roof of the guard house at Whitehall , but none of them died . A distiller in Duke street , with his wife and maid ...
... roofs , and sixteen or twenty whole houses in the out- parts . Under the disaster of this article , it seems most ... roof of the guard house at Whitehall , but none of them died . A distiller in Duke street , with his wife and maid ...
Page 302
... roof over him , and killed him in his bed . A carpenter in Whitecross street was killed almost in the same manner , by a stack of chimnies of the Swan Tavern , which fell into his house ; it was reported , that his wife earnestly ...
... roof over him , and killed him in his bed . A carpenter in Whitecross street was killed almost in the same manner , by a stack of chimnies of the Swan Tavern , which fell into his house ; it was reported , that his wife earnestly ...
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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.