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David Bogue, 1880 - 447 strani
 

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Stran 409 - And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there...
Stran 284 - Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land. Wretched men starved with hunger. Some lived on alms, who had been erewhile rich. Some fled the country. Never was there more misery, and never acted heathens worse than these.
Stran 338 - The which shews, that the Contagion of the Plague depends more upon the Disposition of the Air, than upon the Effluvia from the Bodies of men. 12. Which also we prove by the suddain jumps which the Plague hath made, leaping in one Week from 118 to 927 ; and back again from 993 to 258 ; and from thence again the very next Week to 852. The which Effects must surely be rather attributed to change...
Stran xii - MD," in which occurs the following remarkable statement : — " In one part of it (Edinburgh), congregated together and inhabited by the lowest of the population, there are, according to the Corporation return for 1874, no less than 14,319 houses or dwellings — many under one roof, on the 'flat' system — in which there are no house connections whatever with the street sewers, and, consequently, no water-closets.
Stran 309 - East had already broken out; when an earthquake shook the foundations of the island, and was accompanied by so frightful a hurricane, that the inhabitants who had slain their Mahometan slaves, in order that they might not themselves be subjugated by them, fled in dismay, in all directions. The sea overflowed the ships were dashed to pieces on the rocks, and few outlived the terrific event, whereby this fertile and blooming island was converted into a desert. Before the earthquake, a pestiferous wind...
Stran 306 - Here a parching drought, accompanied by famine, commenced in the tract of country watered by the rivers Kiang and Hoai. This was followed by such violent torrents of rain, in and about Kingsai, at that time the capital of the empire, that, according to tradition, more than 400,000 people perished in the floods. Finally the mountain Tsincheou fell in, and vast clefts were formed in the earth.
Stran xli - Thus it was that one citizen fled from another — a neighbour from his neighbours, a relation from his relations — and in the end, so completely had terror extinguished every kindlier feeling, that the brother forsook the brother, the sister the sister, the wife her husband, and, at last, even the parent his own offspring, and abandoned them, unvisited and unsoothed, to their fate.
Stran 334 - I cannot well learn. Doubtless it was some pestilential disease. I have discoursed with some old Indians that were then youths, who say that the bodies all over were exceedingly yellow, describing it by a yellow garment they showed me, both before they died and afterwards.

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