An Address Delivered in the Orphan Asylum, New-York, Feb. 5, 1822 on Conflagration of Orphan House in PhiladelphiaE. Conrad, 1822 - 11 pages |
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... feelings of those be- reaved women , whose lovely infants were torn from their breasts , and hewed in pieces by the sanguinary sword ? Nature feels ; sensibility speaks ; the voice is heard ; deep lamentation , excessive weeping , and ...
... feelings of those be- reaved women , whose lovely infants were torn from their breasts , and hewed in pieces by the sanguinary sword ? Nature feels ; sensibility speaks ; the voice is heard ; deep lamentation , excessive weeping , and ...
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... feeling . How agonizing the scene ; how dreadful in its consequences ! The children , in health and innocent cheerfulness , repaired to their beds , and while enfolded in the arms of balmy sleep ; the fire blazed , ascended the stairs ...
... feeling . How agonizing the scene ; how dreadful in its consequences ! The children , in health and innocent cheerfulness , repaired to their beds , and while enfolded in the arms of balmy sleep ; the fire blazed , ascended the stairs ...
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... feels the dire alarm , and hastens to the spot , who can describe the anguish of the orphan's generous guardians ? Every bell that sounds , and every voice that is heard , adds a thrill to their con- sternation , and a puncture to their ...
... feels the dire alarm , and hastens to the spot , who can describe the anguish of the orphan's generous guardians ? Every bell that sounds , and every voice that is heard , adds a thrill to their con- sternation , and a puncture to their ...
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... feelings of compassion and love ; and offer thanksgiving and praises to the God of mercy for the for the greatness of their deliverance . Nor can you refrain from wishing that their tender minds may be so happily instructed as to ...
... feelings of compassion and love ; and offer thanksgiving and praises to the God of mercy for the for the greatness of their deliverance . Nor can you refrain from wishing that their tender minds may be so happily instructed as to ...
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... feeling and compassionate public may open a liberal hand to rebuild its desolated walls , restore its fugitive children , and make the habitation an asylum , so long as an orphan's cry shall be heard in the streets of Phila- delphia ...
... feeling and compassionate public may open a liberal hand to rebuild its desolated walls , restore its fugitive children , and make the habitation an asylum , so long as an orphan's cry shall be heard in the streets of Phila- delphia ...
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Page 6 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Page 5 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.