 The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.  The London Quarterly Review - Page 2091846Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...shall gaze upon, and these eyes shall behold him, and not as an alien. HUMAN life in its best estate is but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone ; and such is the opinion and experience of the best and wisest men, in all ages, and in all countries.... | |
 | Church of England - 1829 - 668 pages
...threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong 'that they come to fourscore years : yet is thei: strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 11 But who regardeth the power of tir wrath : for even thereafter as a man feareth. so is thy displeasure.... | |
 | Henry Clissold - 1829 - 716 pages
...days of our age are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and it is gone. Ps. xc. 10. LORD chief Justice of England, not more eminent for his station than for his... | |
 | William Wood - 1830 - 458 pages
...our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone!' You have been at the funerals of some of your kindred, I suppose, and have heard this forcible admonition... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1830 - 482 pages
...age are threescore years .and ten ; and though men be so strong thai they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. So teach us to number ourdays, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Glory be to the Father, and... | |
 | John Warton - 1830 - 480 pages
...our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone!' You have been at the funerals of some of your kindred, I suppose, and have heard this forcible admonition... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 542 pages
...are threescore years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet-is their strength then but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. "—T. 5 Thus Crawta.] See Spenser, canto ii. 14 : Per vho will bide the hucdvn оГсЦвисм. tía*... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Margracia) - 1830 - 452 pages
...singing the verse, " Though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone." No eye wandered, no limb was restless, while the very stillness of each motionless figure possessed... | |
 | John Wesley - 1830 - 568 pages
...strong," perhaps one in a hundred, " that they come to four score years ; yet then is their strength but labour and sorrow : so soon passeth it away, and we are gone !" ' 2. Now what a poor pittance of duration is this, compared to the life of Methuselah? " And Methuselah... | |
 | Daniel Sandford (Bishop of Edinburgh), John Sandford - 1830 - 372 pages
...years and ten, and though some be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone." Nor, alas, does the spoiler direct his violence only against decrepitude and infirmity : at no hour... | |
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