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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... thoughts of it . The second week in June , the parish of St. Giles's , where still the weight of the infection lay , buried 120 , whereof , though the bills said but sixty - eight of the plague , everybody said there had been a hundred ...
... thoughts of it . The second week in June , the parish of St. Giles's , where still the weight of the infection lay , buried 120 , whereof , though the bills said but sixty - eight of the plague , everybody said there had been a hundred ...
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... thought a needless digression , viz . , about these disappointments being from heaven . It came very warmly into my ... thought fit . These thoughts quite turned my resolutions again , and when • I came to discourse with my brother again , I.
... thought a needless digression , viz . , about these disappointments being from heaven . It came very warmly into my ... thought fit . These thoughts quite turned my resolutions again , and when • I came to discourse with my brother again , I.
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... thought fit . Then he proceeded to tell me of the mischievous conse- quences which attend the presumption of the Turks and Mahometans in Asia , and in other places , where he had been ( for my brother being a merchant , was a few years ...
... thought fit . Then he proceeded to tell me of the mischievous conse- quences which attend the presumption of the Turks and Mahometans in Asia , and in other places , where he had been ( for my brother being a merchant , was a few years ...
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... thought I had from heaven , that to me signified a kind of direction to venture , and it occured to me , that if I ... thoughts were more than ordinary serious upon the question , I cried out , Well , I know not what to do , Lord direct ...
... thought I had from heaven , that to me signified a kind of direction to venture , and it occured to me , that if I ... thoughts were more than ordinary serious upon the question , I cried out , Well , I know not what to do , Lord direct ...
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... thoughts of going into the country ; and my brother also being gone , I had no more debate either with him , or with myself , on that subject . It was now mid July , and the plague , which had chiefly raged at the other end of the town ...
... thoughts of going into the country ; and my brother also being gone , I had no more debate either with him , or with myself , on that subject . It was now mid July , and the plague , which had chiefly raged at the other end of the town ...
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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.