 The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.  The Quarterly Review - Page 386edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | William Greenleaf Eliot - Hymns, English - 1845 - 406 pages
...the morning it is green, and groweth up ; but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. The days of our age are threescore years and ten ;...to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labor and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. So teach us to number our days, that we... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1845 - 388 pages
....We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are three score years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they...yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone." Thus is the lesson conveyed to us that decay and death are... | |
 | Stephen Rumbold Lushington - Generals - 1845 - 424 pages
...has been pleased to grant it. You know Solomon or David says, " The days of our years are threescore and ten, and though men be so strong, that they come...yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. We bring our years to an end as a tale that is told ! " And... | |
 | Thomas Dale - 1845 - 256 pages
...been conversant with the song of Moses, the Man of God, where it is written, " The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and though men be so...they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone."" He might, therefore, have extended his... | |
 | John Julius Plumer - Families - 1845 - 274 pages
...Thou art angry all our days are gone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. men be so strong that they come to fourscore years...is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. But who regardeth the power of Thy wrath : for even thereafter... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 634 pages
...philanthropy may exaggerate a little our present danger ; and as this consideration naturally carries us back to the earlier ages, we should venture to...is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.' Dr. Reid, however, is of a more liberal opinion, and informs... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 638 pages
...the Honourable Member's former labours. But if the public danger from a neglect of Reid-Ventilation be very awful, the prospects opened by the future...is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.' Dr. Reid, however, is of a more liberal opinion, and informs... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1846 - 818 pages
...thou art augry, all our days are gone : We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. s, (12.)vain Repetitions, Commemorations, (13.) and Synodals, (14.) soon passeth it away, and we are gone. So teach us to number our days, that \ve may apply pur hearts... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...ourselves ? Bubbles ! some of longer, some of less continuance ; but all alike hastening to extinction. The days of our age are threescore years and ten ;...yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. THE CASTLES AND MANSIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. JJi'vlon... | |
 | Prayers - 1846 - 44 pages
...Thou art angry all our days are gone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten ;...is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. But who regardeth the power of Thy wrath: for even thereafter... | |
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