 | William Stern Palmer - 1817 - 178 pages
...suddenly it may be executed. To this state of uncertainty, the prayer of David is appropriate: Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I inay know how frail I am;9 for the knowledge of our frailty may cause attention to the Prophet's... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 550 pages
...ingratitude of man ; the transient miseries of time, and the durable glories of eternity. 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days what it is : that / may know how frail I am. Wearied with the contradiction of sinners, and sickening at the prospect... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1818 - 618 pages
...especially selected by the Dean, and read accordingly; after which Dr. Green's celebrated Anthem, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days," was sung in an exquisite manner by the gentlemen belonging to the choir. The Dean then delivered an... | |
 | 1819 - 934 pages
...stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me; was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 LORD, @ X 5 that I may know how frail 1 am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...was hot within me ; while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4 Lord, make me know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age... | |
 | 1863 - 1200 pages
...rise again to memory. But vain is the pride of beauty. The rose fades, and the lily is soiled. " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, Thou hast made my days as a handbreadth ; and mine age is... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 548 pages
...am ashamed of the sins I have desired, and am confounded for the pleasures that I have chosen. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am, and that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Withhold not thou thy... | |
 | 1822 - 792 pages
...sense of the words agrees exactly with the translation of them as we find it in the Bible. " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days ; what it is, that I may know how frail I am. The sum and substance, indeed, of his request, is contained in the... | |
 | W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 pages
...surely every man is vanity. (39 P. 11.) ,12. Does he pray to be made sensible of his own frailty ? Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know bow frail I am. 'Beheld, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is... | |
 | 1823 - 152 pages
...surely every man is vanity. (39 P. 11.) 12. Does he pray to be made sensible of his own frailty? Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is... | |
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