 | 1817 - 590 pages
...was affliction. Hence, when near the end of his earthly course, he could, in truth, tell Pharaoh, " Few and evil have the days of the years .of my life been."* While yet in the morning of life, he was obliged to secure his own safety from the sanguinary resentment... | |
 | J. Coote - 1817 - 378 pages
...little moment, until the indignation be overpast. (Printed.) Chelsea. Rev. — Rush. Gen. xlvii. 9. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Chitwick. Rev. T. F, Bowerbank, MA Amos, viii. 9, 10. It shall come to pass in that day, saith the... | |
 | John Miller - 1817 - 280 pages
...approved by Him who chose him, there Gen. xivii. is an answer out of Jacob's own mouth; Few and 9. evil have the days of the years of my life been : and there is a melancholy tale of intermediate wretchedness among his family, to prove this the patriarch's... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 604 pages
...monarch,' who had inquired his age — " The days of the years of my pil" grimage," says the patriarch, " are an hundred and " thirty years ; few and evil have...the " years of my life been, and have not attained to the " days of the years of the life of my fathers in the " days of their pilgrimage." Look at the... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...monarch, who had inquired his age—" The days of the years of my pil" grimage," says the patriarch, " are an hundred and " thirty years; few and evil have...the " years of my life been, and have not attained to the " days of the years of the life of my fathers in the " days of their pilgrimage." Look at the... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1818 - 904 pages
...Wellesley is the Rector, the Rev. Mr. Rush preached from the 47th chapter of Genesis, and the 9th verse. " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." St. Mary-le-bone Church, St. Martin's, and the Asylum, were equally well attended. Solemnity and grief... | |
 | 1818 - 948 pages
...him before Pharaoh : and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou ? 9 arc a hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 390 pages
...invisible Director of their route should appoint, however barren or thorny the spot might appear. " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been," says the aged Israel. But that life was but " his pilgrimage ;" and he " trusted in the promises."... | |
 | Fanny Woodbury - 1818 - 338 pages
...difficulties, fears, and troubles, I doubt not but you can readily adopt the language of the patriarch, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Happy is it for the Christian, that he ;s not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,... | |
 | 1818 - 386 pages
...seventy, I must say what the patriarch Jacob said to king Pharao, when he demanded hie age^ ( The days of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years, few and evil.' A great part of my life hath been spent in pilgrimage, and motion from kingdom to kingdom, and that... | |
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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... 
