 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 430 pages
...very pleasant hast thou 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 that the children of Judah should be taught to use the bow. ANNOTATIONS AND REFLECTIONS.... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 430 pages
...Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou 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 that the children of Judah should be taught to use the bow. ANNOTATIONS AND REFLECTIONS.... | |
 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...David put him to death. And David lamented over Saul, and Jonathan his eon, with great lamentation. — How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished ! And the Men of Jiuhih anointed David King over the House of Judah. But Abner took Ishbosheth the Son of... | |
 | James Wheeler (of Prestwich.) - Manchester (England) - 1836 - 562 pages
...art and its great masters, who could raise What former time, nor skill, nor thought, could plan." All this is as nothing, for a spirit glides beside us...because in this our generation men have gone up to Mount Pisgah to worship, eschewing the ceremonials which of yore placed at such a distance the creature and... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Travel writing - 1836 - 486 pages
...kings ! He felt the full truth of the psalmist's lament for the slain on the mountains of Gilboa, ' How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished !' and how hollow, base, and vulgar, appeared to him then the pursuit of objects such as monarchs and their... | |
 | Twenty essays - Christian life - 1838 - 212 pages
...Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou 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 when David was established as king over all Israel, he did not in prosperity forget that friend who... | |
 | W. Wakeham - 1847 - 154 pages
...constitution. Hence David exclaims, (speaking of these as representing the characters of the Jewish house) How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished ? And this, brings us to notice the cause of Saul's failure in establishing the kingdom ; and which we find,... | |
 | Charles Beecher - 1849 - 272 pages
...Jonathan : Very pleasant hast thou been unto me ; Thy love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of woman. How are the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished !" And as these tones of tender sorrow melt into the soul, we almost believe we hear an echo of that olden... | |
 | Christian union - 1857 - 954 pages
...the midst of the battle. My brother, very pleasant hast thou been unto me, thy love was wonderful ! How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished ! " And now, sometimes in the deep hush of twilight, or after night-fall, when the stars come out, we hear... | |
 | Elihu Burritt - 1870 - 108 pages
...Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou 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 the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. David therefore... | |
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How 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 pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How... 
