 | Richard Cecil - 1803 - 88 страница
...'and contemplate prefent things. His days an hand-breath i his beauty confumed like the motb-fretten garment ; his cares and pleafures a dream ; his attainments...withereth ; his years a tale ; his ftrength, labour and forroia. So foon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with the Pfalmift,Fm'/y... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 страница
...moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as the grass; which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | 1825 - 434 страница
...moth-fretten garment; his cares 173 and pleasures, a dream ; his attainments, as the grass, which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth ; his years, a tale ; his strength, labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 436 страница
...moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream : his attainments, as the grass j which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and Jled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1830 - 196 страница
...that is told, to a dream, to a vision of the night; and man, frail man, to a flower, that cometh forth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth ? — Are they not few, when that his ' afflictions endure but for a moment,' is said, to encourage... | |
 | John Flavel - 1841 - 232 страница
...moth-fretten garment ; his cares and pleasures, a dream ; his attainments, as the grass, which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth ; his years, a tale ; his strength, labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1845 - 768 страница
...of human life, and to remind us of its vanity. Man is " like grass which groweth up, and flourisheth in the morning, and, in the evening, is cut down and withereth." This image is used both in the Old and New Testament Scriptures, and there is none better calculated... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1847 - 336 страница
...moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as the grass: which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1850 - 492 страница
...moth-fret ten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as ihe grass: which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | Elam Smalley - 1851 - 600 страница
...vapor, which appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away. We are like grass which groweth up in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth. Were a warning voice from the other world, to come to any one of us, saying, Set thine house in order,... | |
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Look at the deceased, and contemplate present things. His days a hand-breadth : his beauty, consumed like the moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as the grass: which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening... 
