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McClintock & Strong Cyclopaedia — Volume 8
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Condensed and inadequate as i- this summary of the alleged career and teachings of Pythagoras, it reveals the powerful influence exercised by him on the com- munities with which he was associated, and on the later generations which professed the adoption of his alleged philosophy-. Admit ling the Utmost confusion and u…
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Quadrangle is an architectural term used to de- scribe a square or court surrounded by buildings. The buildings of monasteries were generally arranged in quadrangles. See also Quadeatum. Quadrans. See Farthing. Quadratum (squared), a name which was given to the nave of a church because of its square form. See Church;…
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frequenl in the Bible lauds, is also included under the term (see Rosen m tiller [Not.ad Hieroz. ii, 649], Faber fin Flarmar, ii. 142], and Gesenius [Thesaur. s. v. 13'!'] i. It is usual io refer to Hasselquisl as the author- ity for believing that the Kata (sand-grousi I is denot- ed: this traveller, however, -was rat…
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Common Quail (Coturnix Dactylisonans). Quails form a subdivision of the Tetraonida, or grouse family, being distinguished from partridges by their smaller size, liner bill, shorter tail, and the want of a VIII.— G G G red naked eyebrow and of spurs on the legs. There are several species, whereof the common, now dist…
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p- 343 i. The flesh of the quail, t! gh of an agreeable quality, is -aid h\ some writers to he heating, and it has been supposed by Bome that the deaths that occurred from eating the food in the wilderness resulted partly from these birds feeding on hellebore ( Pliny. Hist. Nat, x, 23) and other poisonous plants; hut …
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QUANDT 835 QUARRY Day of days, whose promised glory Israel's holy psalms unfold, Giving voice to solemn sound. "Thousand, thousand are the praises To the Bridegroom which they raise ; With one voice in triumph singing Through the everlasting days, Hallelujah, without end." See Trench, Sacred Latin Poetry, p. 2…
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Quarrel (Fr. carre, square) is a technical term em- ployed in architecture to describe a diamond -shaped pane of glass, or a square one placed diagonally. It is also the name of a small piercing in the tracery of a window. A wax taper (q. v.) used in churches is also called " quarrel." Quarry P^pS, pesil, but only in …
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Quasimodogemti is a term sometimes used to denote the lir-t Sunday after Easter. It is of compara- tively late origin, and is derived from the Latin version of 1 Pet. ii. 2: Quasi modo geniii infantes, etc. — "As new-born babes," etc. See i; ister, Quatember are fasts observed in the Church of Kome. and by other eccle…
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Quedlinburg, Synods of. Several ecclesiastical councils were held in this German city in mediaeval times. The first took place in 1085. The bishops who sided with pope Gregory VII assembled it immediately after Easter, and it was presided over by the papal leg- ate Otto di Ostia. Among those who attended were archbisho…
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QUEEN 838 QUEEN narrative of the interview of Solomon and Bathsheba, as given in 1 Kings ii. 19 sq. The term is applied to Blaachah, Asa's mother, who was deposed from her dig- nity in c | '<•< r idolatry (1 Kings xv, 13; -J Chron. xv, 16 - mtrasted with Joram (2 !. . 13, •• the children of the king and the childr…
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the hassekies, or those who have a son living, are treated with marked respect, as in the natural course of events they maj become valide. I he title of sultan (for the Turkish has no distinc- tion of gender), though from courtesy it may be given to the hassekies, is, strictly speaking, ap- propriate only to the mi\ er…
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RETH. With the cakes (0*3^. cavvanim ; Sept. xav&ree) which were offered in her honor, with incense and liba- tions, Selden compares the nirvpa (A. V. ". bran") of Ep. of Jer. 43, which were burned by the women who sat by the wayside near the idolatrous temples for the purposes of prostitution. These niTvpa were offer…
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set I '■• - . Jocher, AUgem, G / . . -. Tli-luck. Wittenberger Theologen, p. 214 Mchlt der protest. Dogmatik, i. 357 sq. (.I.II.W. Quental, Bartholomed do, a Portuguese theolo- gian, was born of noble parentage, Aug. 22, 1626, in the 5t Michael. Azores. In 1643 be was at m to Por- tugal to study at Evora and other Po…
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Quesnel, Pasquier, a celebrated French priest of the Oratory, was born of Scottish descent, at Paris, in 1634. He studied at the Sorbonne, and in 1657 enter- ed the Congregation, to which his two brothers belong- ed also. Those were times that tried men's souls. All France was agitated by the controversy which threat- …
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Question, Modern, is, in Scotland, "Whether it be the duty of all to whom the Gospel is preached to re- pent and believe in Christ?" and it is called modern be- cause it is supposed never to have been agitated before the early part of the last century. It originated in Northamptonshire, in the churches in which Mr. Dav…
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conquest, the greater part of what is now called Los AltOS, or the highlands, of Guatemala, including the districts ol Quiche, Totonicapam, and Quesaltenango. Their traditions indicate that they sprang from the Toltec stock. Their records, as written out by mem- bers of the royal house immediately after the conquest,…
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Quick, John, an English Presbyterian divine, was born at Plymouth in 1636. Having determined to en- ter the ministry, he was ordained in 1658. AYhen the Nonconformity bill of 1662 was passed, he joined the conforming party, and was subjected to imprisonment. After his release, he went to London, and became the pastor o…
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This " Creed," to use its scholastic title, first appeared in Latin, the Greek copies that exist being independent versions from that language. The age also of the old- est Latin MSS. exceeds that of the Greek exemplars by several centuries. The oldest Latin copy is referred by archbishop Usher to the beginning of the …
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healed. Augustine expresses himself with his usual roundness ami perspicuity upon a point that was a re- sult ,,| scriptural reasonings collected into one focus of light (lh J', in. i\, 29; xv, 17 i. The concluding chap- ters of his work are filled with statements of the pro- cession of the Holy Spirit, and a comparis…
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Quiddity, or Quidity (quidditas, from quid,-wheLt), a term employed in scholastic philosophy as equivalent to the to tI i]v t'ivai of Aristotle, and denotes what was subsequently called the substantial form. It is the an- swer to the question, What is it? — quid est ? It is that which distinguishes a thing from other t…
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QUIETISM 84G QUIETISM Via ah Sapientiam i st Vi \ UNIVERSALIS. 1'l'RGATlVA. ILLIH.NAT.VA. L.MT1VA. Q endii Summum Bouuni Verum I'nuin hominis Natnralis Spiritnalia Deiformis quoad Cur,,, is Animara Spiritnm C'lljtlS Sanitas Scieutia Sanclitas eel i ■ Sensns Ratiouis Mentis es Dei Bonitate …
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is when none of the pOWl rs of the mind are excited is not explained. The Quietists think to attain that re- pose of the mind which is the resull of exertion, and thai quiel res! in God which follows from the earnest- ness of meditative prayer, by altogether sure, asing from the exertion and superseding the earnestness…
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Quinisextum, Concilium CZvvoOoq irsvSeicTTi, as a complement of the fifth and sixth, so-called, oecumen- ical councils, A.D. 555 and 680), was held at Constan- tinople in 692, and intended to complete the disciplinary measures proposed, but not completed, at the previous councils. The meetings of this council were held…
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Quintillani were a sect of Montanists who ap- peared in Phrygiaabonl 189. They were bo called from their prophetess, Quintilla of Carthage. < me ofthe pe- culiar tenets of this strange seel was thai women are by til itled to perform episcopal and other ministerial amies. They attributed extraordinary gifts to Eve, in c…
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Their country was, primitively, much larger, and was not an island; but a terrible flood inundated the land, leaving only discovered the tops of the mountains. This happened under the following circumstances: A rich man, called Toja, lost by a sudden death his young- est son, whose mother had died in giving him birth. …
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3. Johann (2), son of the preceding, was born at Ros- tock, Feb. 5, 1624. He studied at Greifswalde, Kbnigs- berg. Copenhagen, and Leyden, was made doctor of the- ology, and died as rector magnijicus Dec. 24, 1689. He wrote, Catechesis Antipapistica : — Pia Desideria, etc. See Jocher, Allgem. Geleh rten-Lexikon, s. v. …
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Quoin, the outer angle of a wall. Quotations, Biblical. The verbal citations con- tained in Scripture are of three classes : (a) Those which the later writers of the Old Test, make from the earlier. (b) The quotations made by Paul from heathen authors — viz. Acts xvii, 28 from Aratus, Phcenom. 5, or Cle- anthes, Hymn,…
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QUOTATIONS 852 QUOTATIONS thine own heart,-' etc. (ver. 20, 21). It is not improb- able that what we cannoi bul n gard as the i readings in Cbronicli s are to be traced to the similarity between *13*lV and "133^ in the former of the two verses, and ~"~ and ""-" in the latter. Ii may be added that in the Septuagint t…
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4. Our la-i example is thi Decalogue, of which we have two editions, in Kxod. xx and Deut. v, between which there are not a tew differences, some ot , sider- able importance, lint it is very doubtful whether any of the-, differences can be laid to the charge ot the Copyist; certainly the more important of them must h…
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(3.) Words and phrases transposed : e. g. Rom. x. 20, Ei>pt3i)v roig ipi pi) Zrjrovaiv, ip<pavi)g iytvo\ii\v roig tf.it /.n) iirtpwrCoGiv, for 'Eptyavng tyti'iftijv roig ipi pi) iirtpojrioGtv, fvpidrfv roig ipi pi) l,i)tovgiv, Isa. lxv, 1, etc. The Codex Alex, gives this passage ex- actly as cited by Paul. (4.) Words …
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QUOTATION- 854 QUOTATIONS bined with another from the Hebrew. In Mark xii, 30; Luke x, -J7: Rom. xii, 19, the Sept. and Hebrew are superadded the one upon the other. In the Epistle to the Hebrews, which in this respecl stands alone, the Sept. is uniformly followed; except in the one remark- able quotation (Heb. x, 3…
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! ness];" while others understand it of the Holy Spirit, or the Spirit implanted in the soul by Cod. and trans- late, either, "The Spirit which dwelleth in us lusts [ de- sires, inclines | against envy ;" or. "The Spirit which he [God hath placed in us jealously desireth [usforhim- i self]." In neither case can the st…
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(2.) For the purpose of pointing out the application of the passage quoted to some statement or description in the context into which it is introduced. From the circum- stance that several of the passages thus adduced are, in the phraseology of the New Test., as well as in that of the Rabbinical writings, said to be " …
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QUOTATIONS 856 QUOTATIONS braces has been examined and been found to support it, every experiment "r occurrence thai favors it may be Baid to fill up what is wanting to its perfect and unde- niable certainty. Hence the New-Test, writers, in re- cording events or describing characters which accord with and so • scemp…
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The truth is. the practice ol' making use, in this way, of previous and popular writers is one which was com- mon not. only in the days of the apostles, hut which can hardly fail to he common wherever an established national literature exists. In proof of this we have only to examine the writings of the later classics …
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* To illustrate Steinschneider's statement, we give the following example. In the Talmud (Sidda, fol. 51, col. 2) it was said in the school of R. Ishmael, "He will magnify the law and make it honorable" (Isa. xlii, 41). t Iu the Talmud (Sabbath, fol. 10, col. 1) the question was raised, how long the judges were oblige…
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6. Isa. x, 13, intailB; Yadaim, ch. iv, § 4, ip.DV.3 [iu the Bible (with the exception of our passage) FlO'J is always read with the Samech]. 7. Ezek. xlvi, 21, ^"IXpa MaiX ; Middoth, ch. ii, §5, filSXpa ;'31X [probably ou account of the following QUOTATIONS 858 QUOTATIONS rV'Sp" in v, 22; EE~X is the reading also…
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2S. Numb, v, 19, Err xb EX: Git/ in, fol. 00, Yoma, foi. 37, coi. 2, a nr xb =x arr ex. 29. Numb, xviii, 10, iT-JSP EJ'Vmp'Q *~'~Z1 ; in the Talmud seems once to have stood ~3""" after tt)*iH, at leasi this is intimated in the Tosaphoth, or additional com- mentary to the Talmud; Erakin, fol. 18, col. 2, where it is s…
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49. Ezek. xliv, 9, is quoted Moed Katon, fol. 5, col. 1, but with the addition I3mi!jb after HUlpa. 50. Hos. iv, 11, SJiini plene; Yoma, fol. 76, col. 2, it is written WIT! and read fflllTl. 51. Amos iv, 6, IplM 13X 351 ; Nidda, fol. 65, col. 1, inna 1338 da. 52. Amos viii, 11, flll-p 1131 nx ; Sabbath, fol. 13S, c…
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the following: "Three codices [of the Pentateuch] were found in the court of the Temple, one of which had the reading "pSO, the other 1EMBST, and the third dif- fered in the number of passages wherein X"!~l is read with a Yod; thus in the one codex it was written "p50, dwelling [Dent xxxiii, 27], while the other two co…
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sq. (Ii. 1'.) Quotidian (secta chori), payment for duties per- formed in choir and personal attendance at divine ser- vice. The prsesentiarius paid it in foreign cathedrals. Quotidiana Oratio (daily prayer) is the name sometimes applied to the Lord's Prayer on account of its daily use by Christians. See LOBD'S PbAI i…
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some say for thirty years (between A.D. 188 and 219)j at Nehardea as meturgeman, or amora, under Shila and Samuel; and at the close of that relationship, he entered upon the higher sphere of school rector and judge at Sura (or Sora), where he exercised those offices till the end of his life. "In this college, which was…
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Rabanus Maurus. See Rhabanus. Rabardeau, Michel, a French Jesuit, was born at Orleans in 1572. and became a member of the order in 1595. He had enjoyed the very best educational facil- ities, and was therefore employed by the Society in its schools, lie taught philosophy and moral theology, and became successively rec…
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east of the Dead Sea; Rabhah,B temple in the tribe of Medshidj i Freytag, ii. 107 a); and perhaps also Rabat, m Morocco. (In the following account we chiefly fol- low that found in Smith. Dict.ofthe A'//,/., with addi- tions from other sources. ) See I.' wan. 1. A very Strong place on the east of Jordan, which, when …
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called the "royal city" (llZ'ib^Ztl "PS), perhaps from its connection with Molech or Milcom — " the king" — more probably from its containing the palace of Hanun and Nahash. But the citadel, which rises abruptly on the north side of the lower town, a place of very great strength, still remained to be taken, and the hon…
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HI'AK 1. J secret subterranean passage, and had not this been dis- covered to Antiochus by a prisoner, the citadel might have been enabled to hold out (Polybius, v, 17). Dur- ing the struggle between Antiochus the Pious (Sidetes) and Ptolemy, the son-in-law of Simon Maccabaeus (B.C. cir. L34), il is mentioned as being…
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2. (MS'in, with the definite article; Sept. Sw^/3a v. r. 'Ap£/3/3a ; Vulg. Arebba) a city of Judah, named, with Kirjath-jearim. in Josh, xv, 60 only. It lay among the group of towns situated to the west of Jerusalem, on the northern border of the tribe of Judah (Keil, Comment, ad loc). It is probably only an epithet fo…
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i '. i- i he equivalent of ''Z~;. Rabbani, my mas- ter, giving the Syriac pronunciation to the Kamets un- der i hey;. .-/,. As such ii is interpreted by the evangel- ists i Su anKaXoc, John i. 39; xx. 16; Man. xxiii. 8). H. Origin and Dati of these Titles. Nathan ben-Je- chiel (q. v.) tells ns. in his celebrated lexic…
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Rabbim. See Batii-kabbim. Rabbinic Bibles, also called Mikraoth Gedoloth (mbltS PHSOpB), or Great Bibles, is the name given to the following Hebrew Bibles, which, besides the orig- inal text, also contain the commentaries of sundry Jew- ish rabbins. i. oibpDix sis-in fj ir-sin d^rri nssist -i-p b-j ynsn si c"32id . .…
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But the most valuable part of his labors are the appen- dices to this volume, which are, "1, the Masorah which RABBINIC BIBLES 868 RABBINIC BIBLES conlu not be got into the margin of the text in alphabetical order, with Jacob beu-Chajim's directions : •-'. the various readings of Ben-Asher and Ben-Naphlali, and the…
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7. rtiaa r~*~p ~z~. or the Amsterdam Rabbinic Bible, edited by Moses Frankfurter (Amsterdam, 1724 27, 1 vols, royal foL). This is unquestionably the mosl valuable of all the Rabbinic Bibles. It is founded upon the Bomberg editions, and gi\ es nol only their contents. but also those of Buxtorfs, with much additional mat…
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8. The latest Rabbinic Bible, with thirty-two com- mentaries, is the d^fflTTiB n"b D2 mb1™ mxipa, published at Warsaw by Lebenson (1860-68, 12 vols, small fob). It contains, besides the original Hebrew, the Chaldee of Onkelos and Jerushalmi on the Penta- teuch, the Chaldee on the prophets and Hagiographa, aud the secon…
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(II.) Rabbinical Lexicons and Word-books. — Buxturf, Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum,et Rabbinicum (Basle, 1640, fol. [new ed. by Fischer, Leips. 1866 sq.j); id. Lexicon Breve Rabbinico-Philosqphieum (ibid. 1607, and often since) ; Hartmann, Supplementa ad J. Buxtorfii et W. Gesenii Lexicon ( Rostock, 1813 ) ; id. Thesa…
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The Tanaim were followed by the Amor aim, 01 later doctors of the law: and the fruits of their work are laid down in the Tali I (q. v.), the completion of which 1 about A.D. 500 i terminated the period of the Amoraim, io be opened by that of the Saboraim, or the teachers of the law after the conclusion of the Talmud.…
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RABBLING ACT, a law passed by the Scottish Par- liament, in 1698, to prevent disturbance and riots at, the settlement of ministers. The Episcopalians in the North rabbled the Presbyterians, especially on the day of an ordination ; for they did not like to see their incumbents supplanted. So violent were their measures …
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2. (Sept. Na/Sowapc/c v. r. Na/SovJap/c.) One of the princes of Nebuchadnezzar, who was present at the capture of Jerusalem, B.C. 588, when Zedekiah, alter en- RAB-SHAKEH 872 RACCA deavoring to escape, was taken and blinded and Benl in chains to Babylon (Jer. xxxix, 3). Bab-saris is men- tioned afterwards ver. 13) …
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Rabulas of Edessa, an Eastern pr< late who flour- ished near the opening of the 5th century, was a stu- dent ol Hieodorus of Mopsuestia, and, in 131, was prom- inently identified with the Antiochites at the council in Ephesus. In the following year, however, t'yril of Alexandria succeeded in gaining Babulas to his Bide…
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Rac(c")ovian Catechism was a Polish Protes- tant compilation stating the different articles of the Slavic Reformers. It was published in 1605 at Racova, a city in the Polish palatinate Sandomir, which owed its origin to the Reformer John Sieminsky, and by his son's (Jacob) acceptance of the Socinian doctrines be- came …
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"No greater honor e'er has been attain'd Thau what strong hands or nimble feet have gaiu'd." Indeed, all those exercises thai conduced to til men lor war were more especially valued. Swiftness was looked upon as an excellent qualification in a warrior, both be- cause it serves for a Midden assault and onset, and like…
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RACHEL riage at last, after the cruel disappoint- ment through the fraud which substi- tuted the elder sister in the place of the younger; and the death of Rachel at the very time when, in giving birth to an- other son, her own long-delayed hopes were accomplished, and she had become still more endeared to her husband…
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