The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-03-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DEATH.—The time at last came when the daughters of the Philistines did rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised triumphed. • Both with his first and second wife Samson showed 'himself peculiarly alive to the force of female importunities ; and apt to give way before the exhibition of female distress. In the former  SAMSON  attempt to extort a secret from him, it is said that his wife lay sore upon him—in the preseit. attempt, that his soul was lifted unto death. It looks;a marvellous infatuation —the effect of melancholy weakness—that he should have been thus got the better of in'the we of former palpable designs to give him up unto Ow ,Philistines—evincing the blindness of passion, and holding Nth a most impressive lesson to beware of it. T] ~secret came out at last. God had charged his mother befOre that he was born that no razor should come upon his head—making this the condition, whether of the strength which he had naturally extraordinary visitations and gifts which he supernatural strength When the Spirit of God him. He gave up his conscience and his vow CO a perfidious woman, who on his locks being shorn off --a process which I cannot distinctly -nts,, his strength did depart from -oke out of his sleep was un--fines, in obedience to the were upon him,  1r of tt  came ur  ) Will( understand. him ; and he,  began  all of 1  dvantage they took of theii  ess—putting out his eye 3 1 forcing him to grind in  I know not if there be any natural conle growth of the hair and the recovery Samson may have repented of his infidelity, s of strength been rength was made the instrument great and signal manifeztation—a triumph —a vindication of the supremacy of the one • and, finally, a most picturesque and  nexion between ti  at.of his  r idolatry  and true God  an to the career of a great hero. recoils from the barbarity of the Philistines in bringalind old Samson to make sport of him ; and pro. , one feels. a certain wild and natural ing ruin which he brought upon h himself involved in the common —both men and women-;peetacle. Thus fell one of al personages whom Scripown ward to future  aracteristic termir  mi in the av  o full of tl Dr. Chap  Scripture Readings  SOLDIERS AND M  tobden is  not been tor en? If we I  where would our marPed to France instead  of humbling her at Waterloo—and we presume that Mr. Cobden would have preferred the former alternative, since he thinks that the Duke should now be preaching forgive-ler° would have been our trade, and )f calico ? Hindostan is an ac opened up the marhese commercial evils ? Really  and British  everything to the exer m of t  ry power which these  our armaments  to-morrow, we er: And pray  hould look round ns in vain for  hat does the arrogant upstart g the honourable profession of a nable trade ? Does he intend to disgorge I contumely upon the graves of those who I of battle fighting nobly for their king and 'e we now to be told that the names which  lud embalmed in our me  Ls as those of homicides this, and if public scorn in who can conceive and  f it has c  ticked we may t lone its work, a  horrid, u  and religion. 0 h epithets, but i  mikmaster, who rears inn to their task until the  'arped into early de gnus the existence of  .ender fiat  .k of the