 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 708 pages
...period of our own lives. Our existence this moment is no security for its continuance the next : " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." It is always a, matter of awful uncertainty when we enter on the business of the... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - 1833 - 156 pages
...life? it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." James iv. 13. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Prov. xxvii. 1. Our bodily constitution, and the circumstances in which we are placed,... | |
 | S. T. Sturtevant - 1834 - 662 pages
...itself is an elevation of the voice on the word just before the comma, as in the following quotation : " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." In this sentence it may be also observed that, the form of the words being imperative,... | |
 | Charles Henry Wharton, George Washington Doane - 1834 - 444 pages
...duties, and will become injurious or profitable, according to the manner in which it is indulged. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."* And if this caution be necessary for a day, with how much greater force will it... | |
 | Thomas Searle - 1834 - 284 pages
...breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish, Psalm cxlvi. 3, 4. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth, Prov. xxvii. 1. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; as the... | |
 | William Jay - 1834 - 330 pages
...the prosperity that once crowned his head. " And seekest thou great things to thyself? Seek them not. Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth. From the eagerness with which mankind pursue the distinctions of life, we would conclude,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1834 - 384 pages
...iniquity boast themselves? — Ver. 7. They say, The Lord shall not sec nor regard it. Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Isa. x. 15. Shall the axe boast itself against him that hewetli therewith ! Ezck.... | |
 | Charles George Sommers - 1835 - 442 pages
...of S. S , who had died a few moments after he left her, on the preceding Thursday. The text was— " Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Proverbs xxvii. 1. The female prisoners were very serious and attentive. PS , an... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...hideth his hand in his bosom ; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. — xxvi. 13 — 15. Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. — xxvii. I. Scripture-passages of this kind pourtray in vivid colours the wretchedness... | |
 | Jacob Abbott, Old Harlo - 1835 - 272 pages
...riding-dress, that no time might be lost after her father, whom she expected for her, should arrive. 6. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth," were the first words that met our ear from the selection of Scripture which our teacher... | |
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Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 
