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«As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. . . .»
«And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Israelite, Israelites, lamented, paran, Ramah
«But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, / And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lamented, liken, mourned, piped
«For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; / They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: carcases, deaths, dung, grievous, lamented
«And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bewailed, lamented
«Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.»
«And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: / (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.) / The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! / Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.»
«And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.»
«The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.»