...have afforded many instances of true pathos. One of them expresses the extreme distress occasionedby a famine, by this moving circumstance : ' The tongue...bread, and no man breaketh it unto them ; the hands xxiv. • a of the pitiful women have sodden their own chilclren . Which tender and affecting stroke...

...be said with truth, morally and physically, of these helpless children, in the words of Jeremiah, " The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them." I will now close the discussion I have carried on in this and the foregoing letters. When I commenced...

...their young ones : the daughter of my people ¡» become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof...children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them, Lam. iv. 3, 4. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children : they were their meat...

...their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof...children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets : they that were brought up in scarlet...

...eightieth, already given. " LXXX. The reading of holy Scripture is for all." Opposed to this is : " ' The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.' Laroiv. 4. " Since it is manifest from experience, if the Bible be generally allowed of in the vulgar...

...were so covered with a gloom, this language ot lamentation was presented; " The tongue of the suckling child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no man breaketh it unto them;" I thought it might be said, " The ways of Zion do mourn,"...

...though we see not, yet can we doubt that such and such predictions were fulfilled, as the following ? " The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof...children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. " They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets ; they that were brought up in scarlet...

...their young • ни- . The daughter of my people w become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. ordinances. (Touch not, taste not, ; they were their meat, in the destruction of the daughter of my people. /.".„. iv. 3, 4. 10. Samaria...

...the Jews is described, by Jeremiah in his Lamentations, chap. iv. from the 4th verse to the 12th. " The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets....

...their young ones : the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof...children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace...