| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...TOW doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people ! JL A [how] is she become as a widow ! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] 2 is she become tributary ! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks, like... | |
| Charles Walmesley - Bible - 1807 - 696 pages
...world, is struck down from the pinnacle of power, is laid in ruins, and left without an inhabitant. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ? How is the mistress of nations become as a widow? Jer. Lamen. i. 1. That mighty city, which seemed to be invigorated... | |
| Laurence Howel - Bible - 1808 - 576 pages
...prophet Jeremiah had regard to this taxation, when in his mournful complaint he said of Jerusalem, " She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary !" Lam. i. 1. f Assyrian, or rather Babylonian, as vre have observed in our note on the Avord Babylon... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...I. 1 How cloth the city sit solitary, that v-ssfull of people ! how is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary ! Woe is me for Jerusalem ! How woefully is the case altered with her! She, that was of late exceeding... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 424 pages
...by a state of widowhood. The prophet Jeremiah describing tlie desolation of Jerusalem, says, " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ! How is she become a widow ! She hath none to comfort her." Widowhood is considered, in scripture, as a state peculiarly helpless... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 412 pages
...mented by all his people. SECTION XIII. TA.RT OF THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH. From Chap. i. fye. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how ig she become... | |
| Great Britain - 1810 - 696 pages
...millions, six-hundred and seventy-five thousand livres. Now, O London ! it may well be said of thce, ' How doth the City sit solitary, that was full of people ; how is she became as a widow; she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces?' Jerem.... | |
| 1810 - 620 pages
...six-hundred aud seventy-five thou. land livres. Now, O London ! it may well be said of thce, ' How doth thq City sit solitary, that was full of people; how is she become as a widow; she that was great among the nations, and princess among Moscow, the chief city of" all... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Middle East - 1812 - 402 pages
...within sight of modern Jerusalem, so accurately do they pourtray the state of this desolate city : " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ! how is she become a widow ! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1812 - 668 pages
...ijrom off the face of the earth, or exists only as the dreadful tomb of its former inhabitants. " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ! how is she become a widow ! she tliat wiis. great among the nations, and, prinqeso among the, provinces, how is she become tributary... | |
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