| John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...apply our hearts unto wisdom. — Ps. xc. 3. 5, 6. 10. 12. He remembcreth that we are dust: as for man, his days are as grass : as the flower of the...he flourisheth : for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone. — Ps. ciii. 14 — 16. Thou takest away their breath ; they die, and return to their... | |
| Joseph Benson - 1824 - 216 pages
...and mine age is as nothing before thee." (Psal. xxxix. 5.) " As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more." (Psal. ciii. 15, 16.) — " And full of... | |
| Ashbel Green - 1824 - 500 pages
...passed away as the swift ships, and as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. Man's days are as grass, as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. Our life is even a vapour, that appeareth... | |
| Gerhard Friedrich A. Strauss - 1824 - 416 pages
...For he knoweth our frame, He remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass ; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; And the place thereof knoweth it no more. The mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting to... | |
| Sunday enjoyments - 1824 - 164 pages
...the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.' — ' As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.' " " Mama," said Fanny, who had run up to... | |
| Visitation of the sick Order for the - 1824 - 132 pages
...For he knoweth our frame ; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting... | |
| 1839 - 248 pages
...his pillow, and he went off like an infant going to sleep. " As for man his days are as grass : as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more," Psa. ciii. 15, 16. Butcher Hancocks was... | |
| Jacob Catlin - 1824 - 314 pages
...best hopes, and of their highest acquisitions, how many are there cut down and withered ! " As for man, his days are as grass, as the flower of the field he passeth away." "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Are things temporal the sole end for which man... | |
| John Hewlett - 1825 - 516 pages
...shall be gathered unto our fathers." — The proudest mortal may say, " the grave is my house" — " as the flower of the field so he flourisheth, for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone." But, as it is appointed for men once to die, so also after death we must believe there... | |
| Cottage - 1825 - 164 pages
...in loneliness from the stem. Sad similitude of humanity ! ' As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.' * When youth is joyous, and its pleasant... | |
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