| John Havett - 1703 - 380 страници
...fecms the good Patriarch goes on with this account of them ) few and evil have the Days of the Tears of my Life been, And have not attained unto the Days of the Tears of the Life of my Fathers in the Days of their Pilgrimage. Now if we conftder, that an Hundred... | |
| William Sherlock - 1735 - 398 страници
...Troubles, which occafion'd that Anfwer he gave to Pharaoh, when he afked how old he was ; Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my Pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years. Fe-iv and evil have the days -and years of my Life been ; and I have not attain' d to the days and... | |
| John Tillotson - 1748 - 448 страници
...the fons of Heth, 7 am a flranger and a fojourner -with you ; and chap, xlvii. 9. where Jacob fays to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are...an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the tAe days of the years of my life been. Theft good men •were grangers andfojourners in a land which... | |
| John Tillotson - 1748 - 428 страници
...this life had been referved for them, that faying of old Jacob, towards the conclufion of his life, Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, would have been an eternal reflexion upon the truth and faithfulnefs of him who had fo often called... | |
| Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - 418 страници
...forth like a flower, and is cut down : hefteeth alfo as a Jhadow, and continueth not. Gen. xlvii. 9. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been : this was old Jacob's account of himfelf. And men that have been ferious and confiderate, have thus... | |
| John Smith - 1752 - 264 страници
...life had continued : The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years, feyj and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the yean of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage, Gen. xlvii. 9. But in particular,... | |
| John Smith - 1752 - 270 страници
...account unto Pharaoh how long his life had continued : The days of the years ef my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years* few and evil have the days of the years of my life heen, and have not attained unto the days of thg years of the life of my fathers, in the days... | |
| John Tillotson - 1757 - 482 страници
...fons of Heth, *' I am a ftranger and a fojourner witk you;" and Gen. xlvii. 9. where Jacob fays to Pharaoh, " The days of the years of my pilgrimage...evil " have the days of the years of my life been." Thefe good men were " ftrangers and fojourners" in a land, which was promifed to be theirs afterwards.... | |
| William Mason - 1765 - 522 страници
...we die. The sum total of human life is justly calculated by the hoary-headed patriarch, Jacob, "Pew and evil have the days of the years of my life been," Gen. xlvii. 9. A truth this that lies level with the common observation and judgment of all men ; but... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1767 - 308 страници
...grant. Amen. SERMON VII. The Hiftory of JAGOB, confidered. SERMON VII. GENESIS xlvii. 9. And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage,...years : fe-w and evil have the days of the years of my life beenTH F. RE is not a man in hiftory, whom I pity more, than the man who made this reply not becaufe... | |
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