| J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us,' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." The account of the plague is not so historical as we have elsewhere read it ; but it is full of authentic... | |
| Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1835 - 440 pages
...there, which was a sad sight to me, being the first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." : June 17 — " It struck me very deep this afternoon, going with a hackney-coach down Holborn, from the Lord Treasurer's : the coachman I found to drive easily and easily, at last... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us !" writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. — 'To St. James's, and did our usual business before the Duke of York; which signified little, our... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us," writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. July 12th. A solemn fest-day for the plague growing upon us. 13th. Above 700 died of the plague this... | |
| Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1848 - 466 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco... | |
| John Stoughton - Puritans - 1848 - 356 pages
...his hour was come ; and who but must bo deeply affected with the following passage in Pepys's Diary: "June 17. It struck me very deep this afternoon, going with a hackney-coach down Holborn, from the Lord Treasurer's, the coachman I found SPIRITUAL HEROES. to drive easily and... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...manifestly no wish that the extent of these gratuities should be generally known, nor the persons sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me in an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll tobacco... | |
| Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 532 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco... | |
| Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 508 pages
...cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us ! " writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, heing the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco... | |
| American essays - 1894 - 1020 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord, have mercy upon us ' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw." The unabridged diary constantly deepens our sense of what may almost be called the pitiless veracity... | |
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