 | John Havett - 1703 - Страниц: 380
...fecms the good Patriarch goes on with this account of them ) few and evil have the Days of the Tears of my Life been, And have not attained unto the Days of the Tears of the Life of my Fathers in the Days of their Pilgrimage. Now if we conftder, that an Hundred... | |
 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - 1871 - Страниц: 720
...of misery ; and I may say with old Jacob, ' The days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their pilgrimage ' (Gen. xlvii. 9). " As to my education, I was brought up with those that... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - Страниц: 428
...this life had been referved for them, that faying of old Jacob, towards the conclufion of his life, Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, would have been an eternal reflexion upon the truth and faithfulnefs of him who had fo often called... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - Страниц: 418
...forth like a flower, and is cut down : hefteeth alfo as a Jhadow, and continueth not. Gen. xlvii. 9. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been : this was old Jacob's account of himfelf. And men that have been ferious and confiderate, have thus... | |
 | John Smith - 1752 - Страниц: 264
...life had continued : The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years, feyj and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the yean of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage, Gen. xlvii. 9. But in particular,... | |
 | John Smith - 1752 - Страниц: 270
...account unto Pharaoh how long his life had continued : The days of the years ef my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years* few and evil have the days of the years of my life heen, and have not attained unto the days of thg years of the life of my fathers, in the days... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - Страниц: 482
...witk you;" and Gen. xlvii. 9. where Jacob fays to 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." Thefe good men were " ftrangers and fojourners" in a land, which was promifed to be theirs afterwards.... | |
 | William Mason - 1765 - Страниц: 522
...we die. The sum total of human life is justly calculated by the hoary-headed patriarch, Jacob, "Pew and evil have the days of the years of my life been," Gen. xlvii. 9. A truth this that lies level with the common observation and judgment of all men ; but... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1767 - Страниц: 308
...SERMON VII. GENESIS xlvii. 9. And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage, are an hundred and thirty years : fe-w and evil have the days of the years of my life beenTH F. RE is not a man in hiftory, whom I pity more, than the man who made this reply not becaufe... | |
 | Mary Deverell - 1776 - Страниц: 312
...might we not reply as that Patriarch did to Pharaoh, after he had given in the number of his days ; Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. It was a monarch's queftion, and. therefore needs no excufe. BUT, perhaps, it may be objected, that... | |
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And Jacob said 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, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their... 
