...e'e, and I saw that raw o' bairns' heads round the feet o' the woman, 1 conceited that it might be Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they were not — but 1 4n sair misdoubting, collector, I 'm sair misdoubting, it's a far ither woman, the...

...despair; the aged parent, the widowed mother, loses, when she is deprived of her children, *Robert Hall. every thing but the capacity of suffering ; her heart...admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachael weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not. " What a scene...

...; her heart withered and desolate, admits no other object., cherishes no other hope. It is Rachael weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not. " What a scene must a field of battle present, where thousands are left without assistance and without...

...I had died for thee: О Absalom, my son, my son!" 2 Sam. xviii. 33; no, nor the anguish of Kachel " Matt. ii. 18. No, nothing is capable of conveying an idea of the condition to which the disciples were...

...ruins of her former grandeur; but what is her fate to that of Africa? hapless, unpitied Africa ! " weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not" — because they have been torn from her with ruthless violence, that they might beimmolated on the...

...ruins of her former grandeur; but what is her fate to that of Africa? hapless, unpitied Africa ! " weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not"—because they have been torn from her with ruthless violence, that they might be immolated on...

...hospitals, to devastated countries, to burning cities, to violated virtue, to murdered innocence ; " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." When he contemplates, too, the elegant trophies of former victory, let the parent remind him how dearly...

...may be victims of disease. Here is Rachel holding up their little robes which are to be used no more, "weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." The father looked for an engaging and entertaining companion ; but the cares and expenses of ten or...

...rested on the hushed earth was broken by those saddest of all sounds the bitter wailings of a mother weeping for her children, and "refusing to be comforted because they are not." " Oh, woe, woe is me !" was the piteous cry of that breaking heart, and the piercing sound went up...

...with the bitterness of despair ; the aged parent, the widowed mother, loses, when she is deprived of her children, every thing but the capacity of suffering...is Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to lie comforted, because they are not. But to confine our attention to the number of the slain, would...