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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... thing as printed newspapers in those days , to spread rumours and reports of things , and to improve them by the invention of men , as I have lived to see prac- tised since . But such things as those were gathered from the letters of ...
... thing as printed newspapers in those days , to spread rumours and reports of things , and to improve them by the invention of men , as I have lived to see prac- tised since . But such things as those were gathered from the letters of ...
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... things to what followed immedi- ately after ; for now the weather set in hot , and from the first week in June , the infection spread in a dreadful manner , and the bills rise high , the articles of the fever , spotted fever , and teeth ...
... things to what followed immedi- ately after ; for now the weather set in hot , and from the first week in June , the infection spread in a dreadful manner , and the bills rise high , the articles of the fever , spotted fever , and teeth ...
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... thing to see , and as it was a sight which I could not but look on from morning to night ( for indeed there was nothing else of moment to be seen , ) it filled me with very serious thoughts of the misery that ... things before me ; the one.
... thing to see , and as it was a sight which I could not but look on from morning to night ( for indeed there was nothing else of moment to be seen , ) it filled me with very serious thoughts of the misery that ... things before me ; the one.
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... things before me ; the one was the carrying on my business and shop ; which was considerable , and in which was embarked all my effects in the world ; and the other was the preservation of my life in so dismal a calamity , as I saw ...
... things before me ; the one was the carrying on my business and shop ; which was considerable , and in which was embarked all my effects in the world ; and the other was the preservation of my life in so dismal a calamity , as I saw ...
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... things ready ; for , in short , the infection increased round me , and the bills were risen to almost seven hundred ... thing as well 10 THE PLAGUE IN LONDON .
... things ready ; for , in short , the infection increased round me , and the bills were risen to almost seven hundred ... thing as well 10 THE PLAGUE IN LONDON .
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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.