...son whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly ; and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he : from his shoulders...upwards he was higher than any of the people. And the asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost : and Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants...

...that there is none like him among all the people ;" for the historian had told us before, that (e) " from his shoulders and upwards he was higher than any of the people." Nay, had I leisure to gratify the curious, I might shew, that not only in the east, but in the western...

...stature, and external appearance, as in the case of Saul, who was called "a choice young man, because, from his shoulders and upwards, he was higher than any of the people," 1 Sam. ix. 2. or to any excellency of art, "as the seven hundred lefthanded men are called chosen men,...

...young man ;" that " there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he ;" and that "from his shoulders and upwards he was higher than any of the people." His intellectual endowments, too, seem to have been of a highly respectable order. Every thing, in...

...Benjamin." — But " he was a choice young man and a goodly ;" " and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he ; from his shoulders...and upwards he was higher than any of the people." Such was the youth, who, in the simplicity of his age and class, stopped the high priest on his way...

...chiefs, chosen, I believe, on the same principle that the Israelites chose the son of Kish, because " from his shoulders and upwards he was higher than any of the people." The Khan, immediately on entering this place, had despatched a letter to the General Paskevitch, at...

...carnal Israelite. Saul was "a choice young man, and goodly; and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders...and upwards he was higher than any of the people." (1 Sam. ix. 2.) But though the people were so greatly pleased with him and with his outward appearance,...

...name was Saul. "Saul was a choice young man, and a goodly ; and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he : from his shoulders...and upwards he was higher than any of the people." The asses of Kish, the father of Saul, had been lost, and Saul had been sent forth, with one of his...

...makes the man. " Saul was a choice young man, and a goodly; and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders...and upwards he was higher than any of the people;" yet he was an unhappy and a bad man, and was much surpassed, in every thing excellent, by the strippling,...

...there "no goodlier a person than he," but — as Samuel said of Saul amongst the Israelites — •" from his shoulders and upwards he was higher than any of the pcople."* " One of those giant minds, who, from the man Of millions, soar aloft, and spurn controL...