 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 390 pages
...fallen in the midst of the battle ! O Jonathan, " thou wast slain in thy high places ! I am dis" tressed for thee, my .brother Jonathan ! Very " pleasant hast...unto me : thy love to " me. was wonderful, passing the love of wo" men. How art the mighty fallen, and the " weapons of war perished !" The words of the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1803 - 440 pages
...circumstances of their life, and turns only upon their familiar converse. " 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." In the mind of this admirable man, grandeur, majesty, and worldly power were despicable... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Buist - 1809 - 422 pages
...his affection in these beautiful strains : " I am dis" tressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : ve" ry pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy "love to me was wonderful, passing die love " of women." Nor was this a momentary glow of affection, which disgusts and disappointments... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 pages
...even that. David saith indeed in his song of lamentation for the death of Jonathan, 2 Sam. i. 26, " My brother Jonathan, very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." Hut he doth not say thaT the love of Jonathan was greater than that of women, but... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 pages
...apparel. How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, slain upon thine own mountains! I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan! very...pleasant hast thou been unto me! Thy love to me was wonderfull surpassing the love of women! How have the mighty fallen! How have the weapons of war perished!"... | |
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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. 
