...of youth wasted without hope, or those of mature age without consolation ? How many Rachaels mourned for their children, and would not be comforted because they were not ? Conscription — what a terrible word ! — How little you can feel* or comprehend all its meaning...

...of youth wasted without hope, or those of mature age without consolation ? how many Rachels mourned for their children, and would not be comforted because they were not ? Conscription—what a terrible word!—How little you can feel, or comprehend all its meaning!—Oh...

...Several women were known to have died in that worse than Calcutta Black Hole of grief. They mourned for their children, and would not be comforted, because they were not. How are the slave-cabins usually built ? — They are made of small logs, and are about from ten to...

...they lamented with a deeper and inconsolable grief the desolation of their 'hearts. Many Rachels wept for their children and " would not be comforted, because they were not." burning heaps, as is often done by brutes, in the very infatuation of fear ; or acting as persons have...

...than ever. The city seemed to me to be fast becoming the great slaughter-house for children. Women, " weeping for their children, and would not be comforted because they were not." My mind was busy with such reflections, and before I reached my home, I had resolved to seek a home...

...than ever. The city seemed to me to be fast becoming the great slaughter-house for children. Women, " weeping for their children, and would not be comforted because they were not." My mind was busy with such reflections, and before I reached my home, I had resolved to seek a home...

...Bethlehem the voice heard was one of lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning ; bereaved mothers wept for their children, and would not be comforted, because they were not. Nor is it too much to suppose that many of them even died in utter ignorance of the honour which had...

...pounds and three quarters, and had hair that would part with a comb, — and tears of Rachels who wept for their children, and would not be comforted because they were not. Was there a tragedy, a mystery, in all Newport, whose secret closet had not been unlocked by Miss Prissy...

...their lives in the different encounters with the natives which had taken place. There were Rachels " weeping for their children, and would not be comforted because they were not ;" and Davids mourning, " O Absalom, my son I my son I" When the steamers from the seat of war were...

...unpitying massacre the infants of a whole district, cuts off the hopes of whole families ; mothers weeping for their children, " and would not be comforted, because they were not ;" a poor, helpless band of innocents, mown down before they were sprung up, their star of life setting...