| William Pinnock - 1822 - 252 páginas
...disease was known with certainty to be the plague, above forty-thousand servants were dismissed, arid turned into the streets to perish : for no one would receive them into their houses ; and the villagers, near London, drove them away with pitch-forks and fire-arms. 7. Sir John Lawrence supported... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - 246 páginas
...health, With soft assuasive eloquence expands Power's rigid heart, and opes his clenching hands; missed, and turned into the streets to perish, for no one...them into their houses ; and the villages near London drove them away with pitch-forks and fire-arms. Sir John Lawrence supported them all, as well as the... | |
| Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 390 páginas
...saw them executed. The day after the disease was known with certainty to be the plague, above 40,000 servants were dismissed, and turned into the streets...one would receive them into their houses, and the villagers near London drove them away with pitch-forks and firearms. Sir John Lawrence supported them... | |
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