| John Gano - 1806 - 164 pages
...sermon from these words: " Few and evil have the days of the years of the life'''' of thy servant " been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the day* of their pilgrimage.'' After I had joined the church, I \vas treated more like an o'd, than a... | |
| Juvenal - 1806 - 578 pages
...pathctick simplicity, " few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." Homer secms to place the maximum of human strength and activity at the period of the Trojan war, when... | |
| Jane West - 1806 - 480 pages
...embarrass young minds, and to unsettle their faith and trust in God, as the apparently unequal f " Few and evil have the- days of the years of ^ my life been," said Jacob to Pharaoh, Gen. ylvii. ve», 9. •f-:" Weep ye not for. the dead, neither bemoa». ''him;... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 428 pages
...answer, such reflections as were naturally suited to his time of life. And Jacob said unto Pharoah) the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred...my life been, and have not attained unto the days «f the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage, But the peculiar Circumstances... | |
| Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1807 - 424 pages
...as were naturally suited to his time of life. And ^ac&k said note Pharcab) the days of the years sf my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few...my life been, and have not attained unto the days ff the years of the life of my father 's, in the days of their pilgrimage. But the peculiar circumstances... | |
| Richard Graves - 1807 - 520 pages
...venerable Patriarch, * " ho\r " old art thou?" " And he answered, " the " days of the years of nty pilgrimage are "an hundred and thirty years; few and...have the days of the years of my " life been, and I have not attained to " the days of the years of my fathers, in " the days of their pilgrimage." In... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...your most holy faith. CHAP. XIX. OF DEATH. I. THE shortness of human life. Gen. xlvii. 9. Jacob wid, few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Job xiv. 1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days. 1 Sam. xx. 3. There is but a step between me... | |
| 1808 - 604 pages
...condition. of man in this transitory i state. To the question proposed by Pharaoh, he answerer!, " The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred...and have not attained unto the days of the years of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." Jacob was in every sense a pilgrim and a sojourner in... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1808 - 462 pages
...SERMON XXII. p. 281. The Hiftory of Jacob coufidered. GENESIS, XLVII. 9. Arid Jacpb fait! unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have'the.days of the years of>my life been— . SERMON XXIII. p. 295. The Parable of the Rich Man and... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...For every sheep-keeper, not out of pride, but superstition, is abominable to the Egyptians. XLVII. 9 The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years. If thou knowest, that there be any amongst them of skill and •trength : The whole time of my life,... | |
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