A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations Or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences as Well Publick as Private, which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665G. Routledge, 1884 - 315 strani |
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Stran 24 - 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.
Stran 24 - 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.
Stran 246 - 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.
Stran 24 - 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 noonday.
Stran 138 - Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers ; neither take thou vengeance of our sins : spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever.
Stran 122 - Mountmill ; and as the cart usually stopped some time before they were ready to shoot out the melancholy load they had in it, as soon as the cart stopped, the fellow awaked, and struggled a little to get his head out from among the dead bodies, when, raising himself up in the cart, he called out, " Hey, where am I ? " This frighted the fellow that attended about the work ; but, after some pause, John Hayward, recovering himself, said, " Lord bless us ! there's somebody in the cart not quite dead...
Stran 146 - come hither, for I believe thou art in health, that I may venture thee,' so I pulled out my hand, which was in my pocket before, ' Here,' says I, ' go and call thy Rachel once more, and give her a little more comfort from me.
Stran 111 - ... them, and if these did not do they cut and scarified them in a terrible manner. In some those swellings were made hard partly by the 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 operation. In these distresses, some, for want of help to hold them down in their beds, or to look to them, laid hands upon themselves,...
Stran 145 - When the poor woman had taken up all, she was so weak she could not carry it at once in, though the weight was not much neither ; so she left the biscuit which was in a little bag, and left a little boy to watch it till she came again. Well, but...
Stran 34 - The apprehensions of the people were likewise strangely increased by the error of the times, in which, I think, the people, from what principle I cannot imagine, were more addicted to prophecies and astrological conjurations, dreams, and old wives' tales than ever they were before or since. Whether this unhappy temper was originally raised by the follies of some people who got money by it, that is to say, by printing predictions and prognostications, I know not...