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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... 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 great mourning ; while in the anguish of their ...
... 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 great mourning ; while in the anguish of their ...
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... infant charge ; they clothed , nourished and instructed them with the most anxious solicitude , in hope of their piety and future usefulness in the world . On the hapless eve of the severe calamity , uncon- scious of the orphan's danger ...
... infant charge ; they clothed , nourished and instructed them with the most anxious solicitude , in hope of their piety and future usefulness in the world . On the hapless eve of the severe calamity , uncon- scious of the orphan's danger ...
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... infant lives to the honor of his most sacred * On Wednesday afternoon , February 6 , the remains of those poor little orphans were buried in the ground belonging to the Independent Tabernacle , in Cherry - street , attended by the ...
... infant lives to the honor of his most sacred * On Wednesday afternoon , February 6 , the remains of those poor little orphans were buried in the ground belonging to the Independent Tabernacle , in Cherry - street , attended by the ...
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... , which I hope will not be forgotten . It teaches you how uncertain is your life , and how various are the shapes which death assumes , when he receives his commission from on ( 11 11 ) high , to convey the infant ( 10 10 )
... , which I hope will not be forgotten . It teaches you how uncertain is your life , and how various are the shapes which death assumes , when he receives his commission from on ( 11 11 ) high , to convey the infant ( 10 10 )
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John Stanford. ( 11 11 ) high , to convey the infant or the aged to the shades of corruption . Though hitherto you may have been too thoughtless , you have now a powerful admoni- tion , as from the ashes of those orphans , to remember ...
John Stanford. ( 11 11 ) high , to convey the infant or the aged to the shades of corruption . Though hitherto you may have been too thoughtless , you have now a powerful admoni- tion , as from the ashes of those orphans , to remember ...
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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.