A journal of the plague year...A new voyage round the worldJohn E. Morris, 1903 |
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Page 17 - 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.
Page 16 - 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.
Page 120 - 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.
Page 225 - 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 16 - 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. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand ; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Page 303 - This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and
Page 16 - 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. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night ; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; •i" Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness ; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Page 72 - I could no longer resist my desire of seeing it, and went in. There was nobody, as I could perceive at first, in the churchyard, or going into it, but the buriers and the fellow that drove the cart, or rather led the horse and cart ; but when they came up to the pit they saw a man go to and [69J again, muffled up in a brown cloak, and making motions with his hands under his cloak, as if he was in a great agony...
Page 96 - ... 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 as above. Some broke out into the streets, perhaps naked, and would run directly down to the river, if they were not stopped by the watchmen, or other officers, and plunge themselves into the water, wherever they found it.
Page 95 - The swellings in some grew hard, and they applied violent drawing plasters, or poultices, to break 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 caustic«, so that many died raving mad with the torment, and some in the very operation.