Let Him deal with us, if He see fit, as He dealt with David of old, when He forgave his sin, and yet punished it by the death of his child.

There are the Victors in the intellectual wrestlings of the world,the thinkers, poets, sages; the Victors in great sorrows, who conquer the savage pain of heart and desolation of spirit which arise from heroic human grief,Oedipus and Antigone, Iphigenia, Perseus, Prometheus, King Lear, Samson Agonistes, Job, and David in his penitential psalm.

Then said David to his men: Let every man take his sword and gird him withal, and David took his sword and girt him.

Contrast David with the other conquerors of the world; compare him with classical and mediaeval heroes,how far do they fall beneath him in deeds of magnanimity and self-sacrifice!

The power, which was of old in the family of David for the defence of the nation, is being restored, and in a higher and more spiritual sense.

ReligionGod, we thank thee!sent them hither, Priests, Protestants, the Devil and all together: Of all professions and of every trade, All that were persecuted or afraid; Whether for debt or other crimes they fled, David at Hachilah was still their head.

I look on David as an all but ideal king, educated for his office by an all but ideal training.

Again returning to Florence, he carved his first David from an immense block of Carrara marble.

And he cursed David by his gods, and said to David: Come hither

For this cause Saul never loved David after that day, ne never looked on him friendly but ever sought means afterward to destroy David, for he dreaded that David should be lord with him, and put him from him.

" So saying, the Knight led David into the tent, and there the youth washed the blood from his face and put on the clean jerkin.

Then Goliath rose and hied toward David, and David on that other side hied, and took a stone and laid it in his sling, and threw it at the giant, and smote him in the forehead in such wise that the stone was fixed there, in that he fell down on his visage.

Thus prevailed David against the Philistine with his sling and stone, and smote him and slew him.

John Erigena, of the British Nation, descended from noble progenitors, and born in the town of St. Davids in Wales; while the English were oppressed by the cruel wars and ravages of the Danes, and the whole land was in confusion, undertook a long journey to Athens, and there spent many years in the study of the Grecian, Chaldean, and Arabian literature.

Now, when I am sad, I like nature to charm me out of my sadness, like David before Saul; and the thought of these past ages strikes nothing in me but an unpleasant pity; so that I can never hit on the right humour for this sort of landscape, and lose much pleasure in consequence.

David was at this time thirty-eight years of age, in the prime of his manhood, and his dearest wish was now accomplished; for on the burial of Ishbosheth "came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron," formally reminded him of his early anointing to succeed Saul, and tendered their allegiance.

Many besides himself, David among them towards the end, were engaged in the search.

Abigail's meeting with David under the covert of the hill; her turning him from his purpose of wild revenge by graceful compliments, by the frank, and yet most modest expression of her sympathy and admiration; and David's chivalrous answer to her chivalrous appealall that scene, which painters have so often delighted to draw, is a fore-feeling, a prophecy, as it were, of the Christian chivalry of after ages.

I saw smiling Davids, frowning Davids, mild Davids, and ferocious Davids,Davids with oblique eyes, red noses, and cavernous mouths,and Davids as blind as bats, or with great goggle-orbs, aquiline nasal organs, blue at the tips, and lips made for a lisp.

This man was Theodosius the Great, a young man then,as modest as David amid the pastures, as unambitious as Cincinnatus at the plough.

Then Sir Richard, with David beside him and his men-at-arms around, turned about and left the fair.

There was no open talk about David between the brother and sister.

David during that day travelled a ten days journey, and, coming to Omaria, related all that had befallen him; and when the people were amazed, he attributed all that had befallen him to his knowledge of the ineffable name of Jehovah.

The first is the raising of the Brazen Serpent in the wilderness; the second, the punishment of Haman; the third, the victory of David over Goliath; the fourth, Judith with the head of Holofernes.

As to the former, amongst the verse of the period I have given, there is hardly anything to be called song but Sir Philip Sidney's Psalms, and for them we are more indebted to King David than to Sir Philip.