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Page 10 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
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Page 12 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 16 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 24 - ... happy at his going among them, immediately gathered round him, and made a rude kind of noise, which I believe was their method of singing, as their countenances bespoke it a species of jollity.
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| Title | Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 14, Part 1 Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Colin Macfarquhar |
| Editors | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Oct 2007 |
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