 | Fisher Ames - 1809 - 576 страница
...for these distinctions, which become the vehicles of your dishonour. Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. We should say of such a race of men, their name is a heavier burden than their debt. -^ J CAN... | |
 | John Robinson, Piomingo - 1810 - 326 страница
...stultitia! Piomingo. Man is a reptile indeed, and may truly say, with one of your sacred writers, " to corruption, thou art my father ; and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister :" but that daring ambition, those ardent passions, boundless desires, and aspiring hopes, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 страница
...disorder, and where the light is as darkness. This is my house, there have I made my hed: I have •aid to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister: As for my hope, who shall see it? I and my hope go down together to the l«rs of the pit."... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 страница
...the light is, as darkness. This is my house, there have I made my bed : I have Baid to conniption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister: As for my hope, who shall see it? I and my hope go donn together to the tors of the pit." Job... | |
 | John Robinson, Piomingo - 1810 - 328 страница
...of darkness and the grave ? Who would not rather be scattered by the four winds of heaven than say " to corruption thou art my father and to the worm thou art my sister and my mother?" THE STAGE OF LIFE. ONE poet has said that All the world 'sa stage, And all the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1811 - 286 страница
...perfection as his father, and the higheft order of Spirits as his brethren, may, in an, ' ether refpecl, fay to " corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter." « . , ADDISON. SECTION XXI. j»• •j Trust in the Care of Providence recommended. .MAN,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 522 страница
...perfection as his father, and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may in another respect say to corruption, " Thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister." No. 523. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30. • Nunc augur Apollo, Nunc La/dee sortes, nunc et Jove missus... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 страница
...greatest dishonour and indignity, that could be offered to the majesty of heaven; he VOL. xix. a may say to corruption, " Thou art my father;' and to the worm, Thou art my mother," Job xvii. 14. But to think that God would, or could, ever acknowledge or accept such an one as a child... | |
 | John Brown - 1811 - 748 страница
...in a very deplorable case, and given to the most doleful mourning, as these creatures are : he said to corruption, Thou art my father : and to the worm, Thou art mil mother and my sister ; he reckoned himself extremely mean, sprung of dust, and fast hastening to... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 596 страница
..."what is man," as to his extract? A little dust, one made of "the dust of the ground;" that may say to corruption, ''thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother, and my sister," Job xviii, 14. His fabric was not one jot of any better materials than theirs. That God put... | |
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Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. 
