| 1850 - 600 pàgines
...Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, and at length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive ; and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead, but men were forced to choose out certain fields... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 pàgines
...Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, and at length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive ; and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead, hut men were forced to choose out certain fields... | |
| Edward Bascome - 1851 - 270 pàgines
...Gloucester, yea, and to Oxford and London, and finally it spread over all England, and so wasted and spoiled the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive ; churchyards were not sufficient and large enough to bury their dead in : they chose certain fields... | |
| World - 1868 - 528 pàgines
...the capital was reached, and from London the plague spread all over the kingdom, and, says Stowe, " so wasted and spoyled the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive." This was not an exaggeration of what happened in some places ; "there died an innumerable sort, for... | |
| William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 346 pàgines
...Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, and at length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead, but men were forced to choose out certain fields... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 718 pàgines
...(Thornton, On Over Population, 8vo, 1846, p. 178). Stow says it " overspread all England, so wasting the people that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead " (Survey of London, edit, Thoms, 8vo, 1842, p.... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 716 pàgines
...(Thornton, On Over Population, 8vo, 1846, p. 178). Stow says it " overspread all England, so wasting the people that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead " (Survey of London, edit. Thoms, 8vo, 1842, p.... | |
| World - 1874 - 452 pàgines
...the capital was reached, and from London the plague spread all over the kingdom, and, says Stowe, " so wasted and spoyled the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive." This was not an exaggeration of what happened in some places ; " there died an innumerable sort, for... | |
| 1878 - 818 pàgines
...of these at least one-half, or more than a million persons, perished. Stowe says that the scourge " so wasted and spoyled the people that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive." Another old writer says : " There died an innumerable sort, for no man but God only knew how many."... | |
| 1875 - 562 pàgines
...reached, and from London the plague spread all over the kingdom, and, says Stowe, " so wasted and spoiled the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive. This was not an exaggeration of what happened in some places ; " there died an innumerable sort, for... | |
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