| William Mason - 1765 - 522 pages
...pathetic, mournful exclamation of David, when friendship's sweet bands were dissolved in death ! " I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very...been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of woman," 2 Sam. i. 26. Who can read this plaintive note without sympathy? But, though their... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 380 pages
...allusions to the greater circumstances of their life, and turns only upon their familiar converse. " I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan ; very...been unto me ; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." ' In the mind of this admirable man, grandeur, majesty, and worldly power, were... | |
| William Mason - 1803 - 400 pages
...pathetic, mournful, exclamation of David, •when friendship's sweet bands were dissolved in death ! " I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan ; very...been unto me ; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.''...^ Sam. i. 26. Who can read this plaintive note without sympathy ? Wisdom's assertion... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 534 pages
...thine high places, in the high places of thy own country, which thou hadst so valiantly 26 defended. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very...thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passipg the love of women : here his grief for Jonathan breaks out again in an abrupt manner, whose... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 430 pages
...are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle ! O Jonathan, thou wast slain iu thine high places. I am distressed for thee> my brother Jonathan : very...been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. ... How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished ! And David commanded... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 430 pages
...are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle ! 0 Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very...been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished ! And David commanded... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1837 - 668 pages
...are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my 'brother Jonathan : very...been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!'" (2 Sam. i. 25—27.)... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 366 pages
...allusions to the greater circumstances of their life, and turns only upon their familiar converse. ',1 am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan ; very...been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.' In the mind of -this admirable man, grandeur, majesty, and worldly power, were... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1825 - 392 pages
...put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel." The lament is then repeated, and the poet concludes : "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very...been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." " How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!" We shall forbear... | |
| Henry Belfrage - 1821 - 412 pages
...inseparable associate of the Gospel, and it will be the test in our final judgment. ADDRESS IV. 2 SAMUEL i. 26. " I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan...been unto me ; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." THE lamentation of David over the death of his friend Jonathan, is marked by exquisite... | |
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