The Historical Cabinet: Containing Authentic Accounts of Many Remarkable and Interesting Events, which Have Taken Place in Modern Times : Carefully Collected and Compiled from Various and Authentic Sources, and Not to be Found in Any One Work Hitherto PublishedL.H. Young, 1834 - 516 pagina's |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 96 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame ! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches...
Pagina 97 - ... began to consider that nothing was likely to put a stop but the blowing up of so many houses as might make a wider gap than any had yet...
Pagina 95 - The fire having continued all this night (if I may call that night which was light as day for ten miles round about, after a dreadful manner) when conspiring with a fierce Eastern wind in a very dry season; I went on foot to the same place, and saw the whole South part of the City burning from Cheapside to the Thames...
Pagina 99 - ... ready to perish for hunger and destitution, yet not asking one penny for relief, which to me appeared a stranger sight than any I had yet beheld.
Pagina 99 - His majesty and council indeed took all imaginable care for their relief, by proclamation for the country to come in and refresh them with provisions. In the midst of all this calamity and confusion, there was, I know not how, an alarm begun, that the French and Dutch, with whom we were now in hostility, were not only landed, but even entering the city.
Pagina 122 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Pagina 105 - There is, sir, but one stage more, which, though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. Consider, it will soon carry you a great way ; it will carry you from earth to heaven ; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize, to which you hasten, a crown of glury.
Pagina 98 - The poor inhabitants were dispersed about St. George's Fields, and Moorfields, as far as Highgate, and several miles in circle, some under tents, some under miserable huts and hovels, many without a rag, or any necessary utensils, bed or board, who from delicateness, riches, and easy accommodations in stately and well-furnished houses, were now reduced to extremest misery and poverty.
Pagina 129 - ... were to be slaughtered. Here and there the people employed in plucking and salting what had already been procured, were seen sitting in the midst of large piles of these birds.
Pagina 253 - ... scattered about the streets and court-yards, or piled in heaps at the doors of the churches, were left to dissolve in their own corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses as the defence became contracted. The suburb, the greatest part of the walls and one-fourth of the houses were in the hands of the French...
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Historical Cabinet: Containing Authentic Accounts of Many Remarkable and Interesting Events, which Have Taken Place in Modern Times : Carefully Collected and Compiled from Various and Authentic Sources, and Not to be Found in Any One Work Hitherto Published |
| Bijdrager | L. H. Young |
| Editie | 5 |
| Uitgever | L.H. Young, 1834 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de New York Public Library |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 16 okt 2007 |
| Lengte | 516 pagina's |
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