 | Robert Trail - 1810 - 530 pages
...Pharaoh, Gen. xlvii. 9. The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years :sfew and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and 1 have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...murmured and fretted at my hard fate; and thought I might adopt the language of good old Jacob, and say, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." But suddenly it was impressed with power on my mind, that all these evils were brought upon me for... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pages
...Deborah dies, and his beloved wife Rachel dies, and Reuben denies Bilhah. It was no wonder he said, ' Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,' Gen. xlvii. 9. 2dly, There is a harmony of providences among them; selves. It is observed of the wheels,... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 pages
...And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, 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, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage!"... | |
 | 1814 - 760 pages
...much closer examination. ' The testimony I mean, is that of the patriarch Jacob before Pharaoh : " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and I have not attained to those of my fathers :'' — a testimony full and express for the opinion... | |
 | Fanny Woodbury - 1815 - 298 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 is not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, 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, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1816 - 406 pages
...of trouble;" and that Jacob's answer to Pharaoh, when he desired to know the patriarch's age, was, " few and evil have " the days of the years of my life been ;" and your own experience will have convinced you, that both these declarations are true. Pains of... | |
 | John Hoyland - 1816 - 486 pages
...and, when he comes to make the estimate of his own life, near the close of it, what is the amount ? " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Indeed, whilst he was practising deceit upon his nearest relatives in Canaan, Providence was silently... | |
 | Fanny Woodbury, Joseph Emerson - 1816 - 300 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 is not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,... | |
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Pharaoh, 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... 
