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 108
... standing , and the next day went away towards Epping ; the captain also , for so they now called him , and his two fellow - travellers , laid aside their design of going to Waltham , and all went together . When they came near Epping ...
... standing , and the next day went away towards Epping ; the captain also , for so they now called him , and his two fellow - travellers , laid aside their design of going to Waltham , and all went together . When they came near Epping ...
Page 144
... standing at the churchyard gate , full of dead bodies ; but neither bellman or driver , or any one else with it . Neither in these , or many other cases , did they know what bodies they had in their cart , for some- times they were let ...
... standing at the churchyard gate , full of dead bodies ; but neither bellman or driver , or any one else with it . Neither in these , or many other cases , did they know what bodies they had in their cart , for some- times they were let ...
Page 191
... standing , which faces the street , or way , now called Hand - alley , which , though called an alley , is as wide as a street : the houses in the same row with that house northward are built on the very same ground where the poor ...
... standing , which faces the street , or way , now called Hand - alley , which , though called an alley , is as wide as a street : the houses in the same row with that house northward are built on the very same ground where the poor ...
Page 215
... standing . Terrible flakes of fire mount up to the sky , and the yellow smoke of London ascendeth up towards heaven like the smoke of a great furnace ; a smoke so great as darkeneth the sun at noon- day ; if at any time the sun peeped ...
... standing . Terrible flakes of fire mount up to the sky , and the yellow smoke of London ascendeth up towards heaven like the smoke of a great furnace ; a smoke so great as darkeneth the sun at noon- day ; if at any time the sun peeped ...
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... standing . Houses burnt , thirteen thousand and two hundred . JONAS MOORE , RALPH GATRIX , Surveyors . The superstition and zeal of those times made canonization much cheaper in a Protestant than a Popish Church . A vehe- ment preacher ...
... standing . Houses burnt , thirteen thousand and two hundred . JONAS MOORE , RALPH GATRIX , Surveyors . The superstition and zeal of those times made canonization much cheaper in a Protestant than a Popish Church . A vehe- ment preacher ...
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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.