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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... stood thus ; the usual number of burials in a week , in the parishes of St. Giles's in the Fields , and St. Andrew's , Holborn , were from twelve to seventeen or nineteen each , few more or less ; but from the time that the plague first ...
... stood thus ; the usual number of burials in a week , in the parishes of St. Giles's in the Fields , and St. Andrew's , Holborn , were from twelve to seventeen or nineteen each , few more or less ; but from the time that the plague first ...
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... stood at twenty - five each week , till the week from the 18th to the 25th , when there was buried in St. Giles's parish thirty , whereof two of the plague , and eight of the spotted fever , which was looked upon as the same thing ...
... stood at twenty - five each week , till the week from the 18th to the 25th , when there was buried in St. Giles's parish thirty , whereof two of the plague , and eight of the spotted fever , which was looked upon as the same thing ...
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... stood at his door all that day , telling her tale to all the people that came , till the doctor , finding she turned away his customers , was obliged to call her up stairs again and give her his box of physic for nothing , which ...
... stood at his door all that day , telling her tale to all the people that came , till the doctor , finding she turned away his customers , was obliged to call her up stairs again and give her his box of physic for nothing , which ...
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... stood unemployed by the space of five or six days after such service . ORDERS FOR CLEANSING AND KEEPING OF THE STREETS SWEPT . The Streets to be kept clean . FIRST , it is thought necessary and so ordered , that every householder do ...
... stood unemployed by the space of five or six days after such service . ORDERS FOR CLEANSING AND KEEPING OF THE STREETS SWEPT . The Streets to be kept clean . FIRST , it is thought necessary and so ordered , that every householder do ...
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... stood wavering for a good while , but , just at that interval , I saw two links come over from the end of the Minories , and heard the bellman , and then appeared a dead - cart , as they called it , coming over the streets ; so I could ...
... stood wavering for a good while , but , just at that interval , I saw two links come over from the end of the Minories , and heard the bellman , and then appeared a dead - cart , as they called it , coming over the streets ; so I could ...
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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.