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... force or by stratagem , even almost as often as they pleased ; and , secondly , that those that did thus break out were generally people infected , who , in their desperation , running about from one place to another , valued not who ...
... force or by stratagem , even almost as often as they pleased ; and , secondly , that those that did thus break out were generally people infected , who , in their desperation , running about from one place to another , valued not who ...
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... force of the distemper , and partly by their being too violently drawn , and were so hard that no instrument could cut them , and then they burnt them with caustics , so that many died raving mad with the torment , and some in the very ...
... force of the distemper , and partly by their being too violently drawn , and were so hard that no instrument could cut them , and then they burnt them with caustics , so that many died raving mad with the torment , and some in the very ...
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... force , will you ? John . We have offered no violence to you yet ; why do you seem to oblige us to it ? I am an old soldier , and cannot starve ; and if you think that we shall be obliged to go back for want of pro- visions , you are ...
... force , will you ? John . We have offered no violence to you yet ; why do you seem to oblige us to it ? I am an old soldier , and cannot starve ; and if you think that we shall be obliged to go back for want of pro- visions , you are ...
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... force , not only for relief , but to plunder and rob , that they ran about the streets with the distemper upon them without any control , and that no care was taken to shut up houses , and confine the sick people from infecting others ...
... force , not only for relief , but to plunder and rob , that they ran about the streets with the distemper upon them without any control , and that no care was taken to shut up houses , and confine the sick people from infecting others ...
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... force and current when it thawed , whereas the principal recess of this infection , which was from February to April , was after the frost was broken , and the weather mild and warm . Dead of other diseases beside the Plague . From the ...
... force and current when it thawed , whereas the principal recess of this infection , which was from February to April , was after the frost was broken , and the weather mild and warm . Dead of other diseases beside the Plague . From the ...
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Page 1 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another : and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 66 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 3 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page 7 - He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 15 - For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 7 - I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress : My God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust : His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Page 37 - almost desolate — all dead or sick. Here are very few families in this part, or in that village, pointing at Poplar, where half of them are not dead already, and the rest sick.
Page 80 - His hair was long and black, not curled like wool; his forehead very high and large; and a great vivacity and sparkling sharpness in his eyes.
Page 5 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 63 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.