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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... town ; and the weekly bills showing an increase of burials in St. Giles's parish more than usual , it began to be suspected that the plague was among the people at that end of the town ; and that many had died of it , though they had ...
... town ; and the weekly bills showing an increase of burials in St. Giles's parish more than usual , it began to be suspected that the plague was among the people at that end of the town ; and that many had died of it , though they had ...
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... town , it might go no farther ; and the rather , because the next week , which was from the 9th of May to the 16th , there died but three , of which not one within the whole city or liberties , and St. Andrew's buried but fifteen ...
... town , it might go no farther ; and the rather , because the next week , which was from the 9th of May to the 16th , there died but three , of which not one within the whole city or liberties , and St. Andrew's buried but fifteen ...
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... town their consternation was very great , and the richer sort of people , especially the nobility and gentry , from the west part of the city , thronged out of town , with their families and servants in an unusual manner ; and this was ...
... town their consternation was very great , and the richer sort of people , especially the nobility and gentry , from the west part of the city , thronged out of town , with their families and servants in an unusual manner ; and this was ...
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... town , and casting myself entirely upon the goodness and protection of the Almighty , would not seek any other shelter whatever ; and that as my times were in his hands , he was as able to keep me in a time of the infection , as in a ...
... town , and casting myself entirely upon the goodness and protection of the Almighty , would not seek any other shelter whatever ; and that as my times were in his hands , he was as able to keep me in a time of the infection , as in a ...
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... town seemed to be spared in comparison of the west part , I went ordinarily about the streets , as my business required , and particularly went generally once in a day , or in two days , into the city , to my brother's house , which he ...
... town seemed to be spared in comparison of the west part , I went ordinarily about the streets , as my business required , and particularly went generally once in a day , or in two days , into the city , to my brother's house , which he ...
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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.