 | Sunday school literature - 1819 - 612 pages
...and bending over his grave, breaks out in the heart rendingapostrophe of king Oavid, Omy son, my son, would to God I had died for thee, my son, my son. Painful as is this view of the gradual and terrible progress of intemperance, there is at least one... | |
 | John Cennick - 1819 - 540 pages
...without a friend, or husband, or child, to go down with my grey hairs in sorrow to the grave IO my son, would to God I had died for thee, my son, my son! Jesus felt her pain and anguish, and hasted to meet her. He might think, this will be my poor mother's... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Scotland - 1828 - 366 pages
...have heard." " O, Rothsay !—O, my beloved Robert !— Would to God I had died for thee, my son—my son!" So spoke, in the emphatic words of Scripture,...agony of the King's sorrow almost instantly changed to fury,—a mood so contrary to the gentleness and timidity of his nature, that the remorse of Albany... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1828 - 370 pages
...heard." " O, Rothsay! — O, my beloved Robert !— Would to God I had died for thee, my son — my sonl" So spoke, in the emphatic words of Scripture, the...agony of the King's sorrow almost instantly changed to 329 fury, — a mood so contrary to the gentleness and timidity of his nature, that the remorse of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1828 - 592 pages
...apartment last night'|ifom sudden illness — as I have heard." " O, Rothsay !— O, my beloved Robert !— Would to God I had died for thee, my son — my son...and conscience-struck, did not venture to interrupt thfe tempest of his grief. But the agony of the King's sorrow almost instantly changed to fury, —... | |
 | Edward Payson - Sermons, American - 1831 - 406 pages
...may infer from his bitter lamentation on account of the death of Absalom. O, my son, my son Absalom ! would to God I had died for thee, my son, my son ! Well therefore might it be said of him that his children were to consume his eyes, and to grieve... | |
 | Henry Cogswell Knight - Sermons, American - 1831 - 278 pages
...entered the house. There stands the father, like afflicted David of old, and cries, My son, my son, would to God I had died for thee, my son, my son ! There sits the mother, like weeping Rachel, and sobs, as one that mourneth for her only child, refusing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 410 pages
...found dead in his apartment last night from sudden illness — as I have heard." " 0, Rothsay ! — 0, my beloved David !— Would to God I had died for thee, my son — my son 1" So spoke, in the emphatic words of Scripture, the helpless and bereft father, tearing his grey beard... | |
 | Jane Margaret Strickland - Scotland - 1843 - 106 pages
...forward, and flinging himself beside him, cried out in the words of the patriarch, " My son ! my son ! would to God I had died for thee, my son ! my son !" The wild wailing cry that burst from the lips of the miserable parent, thrilled to every heart,... | |
 | Child rearing - 1843 - 548 pages
...big drops of grief flow down her face, haggard with her spirit's wo, as she exclaimed, " Oh, my son ! would to God I had died for thee, my son, my son !" I have visited the Penitentiary, and proclaimed the glad news of salvation to its hardened inmates.... | |
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The details are but imperfectly known to me — but the certainty is, that my unhappy nephew was found dead in his apartment last night from sudden illness — as I have heard. 
