| James Fisher - 1806 - 352 pages
...more : " Man that is born of a woman is " of few days and full of trouble ; he cometh " forth like a flower, and is cut down ; he " fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth " not," Job xiv. 2. Man in infancy flourisheth like a flower, springeth up in childhood, blossometh and buddeth... | |
| Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - 1807 - 388 pages
...nothing ; because our days upon earth are a shadow. Man, that is born of a womr.n, is of few Q days. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down. He fleeth also as a shadow* and continueth not. I said to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. One dicth... | |
| Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 416 pages
...accident rather than of art : " Man that is bora of a woman " is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh *{ forth as a flower, and is cut down ;...he fleeth " also as a shadow, and continueth not.'' Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its harmony ; and yet every... | |
| Sir William Forbes, James Beattie - 1807 - 572 pages
...accident rather than of art : " Man that is born of a " woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a " flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and con" tinueth not." Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its... | |
| Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 414 pages
...rather than of art : " Man that is born of a woman " is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh Jl forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth " also as a shadow, and continueth not." Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its harmony ; and yet every... | |
| Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 410 pages
...accident rather than of art : " Man that is born of a woman " is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh " forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth " also as a shadow, and continuetli not. ' Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its... | |
| Thomas Smith Webb - 1808 - 348 pages
...travelling through this vale of tears. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Seeing -his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds... | |
| Samuel Scott - 1809 - 296 pages
...youth, is in a declining state. What is man, but the creature of an hour, as a bubble upon the water? " he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." May the Lord in mercy, from whom only are the deliverances from death, prolong yet a little, a life... | |
| Samuel Scott - 1809 - 288 pages
...youth, is in a declining State. What is man, but the creature of an hour, as a bubble upon the water? " he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." May the Lord 1n mercy, from whom only are the deliverances from death, prolong yet a little, a life... | |
| Mary Waring - 1809 - 576 pages
...youth, is in a declining state. What is man, but the creature of an hour, as a bubble upon the water? ': he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." May the Lord in mercy, from whom only are the deliverances from death, prolong yet a little, a life... | |
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