| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...soon fail ; so that the Christian shall be obliged to say, " I loathe it : I would not live always. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. There has been so much disquiet in my family, so much trouble among my children, so many disappointments,... | |
| John Hoyland - Bible - 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... | |
| J. Coote - 1817 - 378 pages
...little moment, until the indignation be overpast. (Printed.) Chelsea. Rev. — Rush. Gen. xlvii. 9. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Chitwick. Rev. T. F, Bowerbank, MA Amos, viii. 9, 10. It shall come to pass in that day, saith the... | |
| Religion - 1817 - 590 pages
...was affliction. Hence, when near the end of his earthly course, he could, in truth, tell Pharaoh, " Few and evil have the days of the years .of my life been."* While yet in the morning of life, he was obliged to secure his own safety from the sanguinary resentment... | |
| 1817 - 1082 pages
...Jacob said unto Pharaoh, ' The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: mfew son reigned in his stead. 17 T 'And Amaziah the son of "have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.... | |
| John Miller - Bible - 1817 - 280 pages
...approved by Him who chose him, there Gen. xivii. is an answer out of Jacob's own mouth; Few and 9. evil have the days of the years of my life been : and there is a melancholy tale of intermediate wretchedness among his family, to prove this the patriarch's... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...The days of the years of my pil" grimage," says the patriarch, " are an hundred and " thirty years; few and evil have the days of the " years of my life been, and have not attained to the " days of the years of the life of my fathers in the " days of their pilgrimage."... | |
| 1818 - 948 pages
...And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage arc a hundred and thirty years : of hosts, that nidgest righteously, that triest the reins a have not attained unto the days of the years of tlic life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...The days of the years of my pil" grimage," says the patriarch, " are an hundred and " thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the " years of my life been, and have not attained to the " days of the years of the life of my fathers in the " days of their pilgrimage."... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 390 pages
...invisible Director of their route should appoint, however barren or thorny the spot might appear. " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been," says the aged Israel. But that life was but " his pilgrimage ;" and he " trusted in the promises."... | |
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