| Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1835 - 404 páginas
...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... | |
| Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 páginas
...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... | |
| Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 432 páginas
...; 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... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1836 - 458 páginas
...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... | |
| Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Benjamin Lundy - 1836 - 318 páginas
...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... | |
| Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - 1836 - 418 páginas
...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... | |
| 1837 - 558 páginas
...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... | |
| 1840 - 420 páginas
...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... | |
| 740 páginas
...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... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 páginas
...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... | |
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