The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt, Volume 21840 |
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... hand at the beginning of this last war , viz . that all we should conquer in the Spanish West Indies should be our own . This was with a true design that England and Holland should have turned their naval power , which was eminently ...
... hand at the beginning of this last war , viz . that all we should conquer in the Spanish West Indies should be our own . This was with a true design that England and Holland should have turned their naval power , which was eminently ...
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... hand had I in all this ? I never wrote one word for the peace be- fore it was made , or to justify it after it was made ; let them produce it if they can . Nay , in a Review ' upon that subject while it was making , I printed it in ...
... hand had I in all this ? I never wrote one word for the peace be- fore it was made , or to justify it after it was made ; let them produce it if they can . Nay , in a Review ' upon that subject while it was making , I printed it in ...
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... hand , I shall only observe in the general , that he was a person of great wisdom and sagacity . He understood nature beyond the ordinary capacity , and , if he had had a competency of learning suit- able to his genius , neither this ...
... hand , I shall only observe in the general , that he was a person of great wisdom and sagacity . He understood nature beyond the ordinary capacity , and , if he had had a competency of learning suit- able to his genius , neither this ...
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... hand , coming out of a cloud , with a point hanging di- rectly over the city . There they saw hearses and coffins in the air , carrying to be buried . And there again , heaps of dead bodies lying un- buried , and the like , just as the ...
... hand , coming out of a cloud , with a point hanging di- rectly over the city . There they saw hearses and coffins in the air , carrying to be buried . And there again , heaps of dead bodies lying un- buried , and the like , just as the ...
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... hand , many that thus got away had retreats to go to , and other houses , where they locked themselves up , and kept hid till the plague was over ; and many families , fore- seeing the approach of the distemper , laid up stores of ...
... hand , many that thus got away had retreats to go to , and other houses , where they locked themselves up , and kept hid till the plague was over ; and many families , fore- seeing the approach of the distemper , laid up stores of ...
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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.