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 1665E. Nutt, 1722 - 287 oldal |
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10. oldal
... Trade was a Saller , and as my Deal- ings were chiefly not by a Shop or Chance Trade , but among the Merchants , trading to the English Colonies in America , fo my Effects lay very much in the hands of fuch . I was a fingle Man ' tis ...
... Trade was a Saller , and as my Deal- ings were chiefly not by a Shop or Chance Trade , but among the Merchants , trading to the English Colonies in America , fo my Effects lay very much in the hands of fuch . I was a fingle Man ' tis ...
11. oldal
... Trade , my Goods , or Debts , he quite confuted me : He told me the fame thing , which I argued for my staying , ( viz ) That I would truft God with my Safety and Health , was the ftrongest Repulfe to my Pretentions of lofing my Trade ...
... Trade , my Goods , or Debts , he quite confuted me : He told me the fame thing , which I argued for my staying , ( viz ) That I would truft God with my Safety and Health , was the ftrongest Repulfe to my Pretentions of lofing my Trade ...
22. oldal
... Trades and Bufinefs : But of the refl , the Generality flay'd , and feem'd to abide the worft : So that in the Place we call the Liberties , and in the Suburbs , in Southwark , and in the East Part , fuch as Wapping , Ratclif , Stepney ...
... Trades and Bufinefs : But of the refl , the Generality flay'd , and feem'd to abide the worft : So that in the Place we call the Liberties , and in the Suburbs , in Southwark , and in the East Part , fuch as Wapping , Ratclif , Stepney ...
23. oldal
... Trade in the City , efpecially in every thing that belong'd to Fathion and Finery ; So it drew by Confequence , a great Number of Work - men , Manufacturers , and the like , being moftly poor People , who depended upon their Labour ...
... Trade in the City , efpecially in every thing that belong'd to Fathion and Finery ; So it drew by Confequence , a great Number of Work - men , Manufacturers , and the like , being moftly poor People , who depended upon their Labour ...
32. oldal
... Trade grew fo open , and fo generally practi- fed , that it became common to have Signs and Infcriptions fet up at Doors ; here lives a For- tune - teller ; herc lives an Aftrologer ; here you may have your Nativity calculated , and the ...
... Trade grew fo open , and fo generally practi- fed , that it became common to have Signs and Infcriptions fet up at Doors ; here lives a For- tune - teller ; herc lives an Aftrologer ; here you may have your Nativity calculated , and the ...
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127. oldal - God had moved the heart of a stranger, upon hearing their condition, to give them all that money, and a great deal more such as that he said to her. The woman, too, made signs of the like thankfulness, as well to Heaven as to me, and joyfully picked it up; and I parted with no money all that year that I thought better bestowed.
127. oldal - Here, says I, go and call thy Rachel once more, and give her a little more comfort from me ; | God will never forsake a family that trust in him as thou dost...
96. oldal - But this is but one : it is scarce credible what dreadful cases happened in particular families every day ; people in the rage of the distemper, or in the torment of their swellings, which was indeed intolerable, running out of their own government, raving and distracted, and oftentimes laying violent hands upon themselves, throwing themselves out at their windows, shooting themselves...
93. oldal - ... it off the hooks themselves. On the other hand, the butcher would not touch the money, but have it put into a pot full of vinegar, which he kept for that purpose. The buyer carried always small money to make up any odd sum, that they might take no change.
75. oldal - ... to any one else, seeing they were all dead, and were to be huddled together into the common grave of mankind, as we may call it, for here was no difference made, but poor and rich went together ; there was no other way of burials, neither was it possible there should, for coffins were not to be had for the prodigious numbers that fell in such a calamity as this.
20. oldal - London might well be said to be all in tears ; the mourners did not go about the streets indeed, for nobody put on black or made a formal dress of mourning for their nearest friends ; but the voice of mourning was truly heard in the streets. The shrieks of women and children at the windows and doors of their houses, where...
107. oldal - Hayward told me, they almost buried him alive in the cart ; yet all this while he slept soundly. At length the cart came to the place where the bodies were to be thrown into the ground, which, as I do remember, was at...
96. oldal - Alley, on the right hand of the passage, there was a more terrible cry than that, though it was not so directed out at the window; but the whole family was in a terrible fright, and I could hear women and children run screaming about the rooms like distracted, when a garret window opened, and somebody from a window on the other side the alley called and asked, "What is the matter?" upon which, from the first window it was answered, "O Lord, my old master has hanged himself!
123. oldal - Much about the same time I walked out into the fields towards Bow; for I had a great mind to see how things were managed in the river and among the ships; and as I had some concern in shipping, I had a notion that it had been one of the best ways of securing one's self from the infection to have retired into a ship; and musing how to satisfy my curiosity in that point, I turned away over...
74. oldal - ... go to and again, muffled up in a brown cloak, and making motions with his hands under his cloak, as if he was in a great agony, and the buriers immediately gathered about him, supposing he was one of those poor delirious or desperate creatures that used to pretend, as I have said, to bury themselves. He said nothing as he walked about, but two or three times groaned very deeply and loud, and sighed as he would break his heart.