 | Nathan Marcus Adler - Jewish sermons, English - 1848 - 784 pages
...fulfilled his course." He had done a large and a full day's work before he was summoned to his repose. He came to his " grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn corneth in in his season." It is usual on occasions such as the present to offer to the memory of departed... | |
 | Henry Tudor - Families - 1848 - 468 pages
...memoir, a flourishing business, and the still better patrimony of a good name ; he himself having " come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season." * The dispensations, however, of a righteous Providence are often mysterious,... | |
 | John Taylor (deacon of Octagon chapel, Norwich.) - Norwich (England) - 1848 - 88 pages
...long life, to which doubtless his temperate, regular way of living very much contributed. ' He is come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in, in his season ;' in peace with all the world, and, which is more, with his own conscience,... | |
 | Jane Eliza Leeson - 1849 - 368 pages
...granaries of Edessa were being replenished, and the dread of famine was passing from the land, when Ephrem came to his grave " in a full age, like as a shock of corn come'th in his season." Seed sown by GOD to ripen for the harvest 1 The precious seed was sown indeed... | |
 | Josiah Pratt, John Henry Pratt - Clergy - 1849 - 550 pages
...that, moreover, he has at length finished his course in peace, without protracted suffering, and ' come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.' May his sorrowing friends — may the Committee — may the whole wide circle... | |
 | William Ware - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1850 - 424 pages
...Indiguus est ad te pervenire, qui te metuit. Indignus pervenisse, qui te accusat 1 " — Petrarch. not dim, nor his natural force abated ; " and at last...windows of heaven to look upon such a spectacle." MEMOIR EZRA RIPLEY. EZRA RIPLEY. THE materials, for the following biographical sketch, are not abundant.... | |
 | William Ware - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1850 - 410 pages
...Indignus est ad te pervenire, qui te metuit. Indignus pervenisse, qui te accusat ! " — Petrarch. not dim, nor his natural force abated ; " and at last...which a quaint writer expressed on a similar occasion — "Whatti lovely spectacle ! the angels of heaven fly to the windows of heaven to look upon such... | |
 | Theology - 1854 - 562 pages
...heard to utter was ' Jesus !' His birth day was his dying day. He had just completed his 73rd year. He came " to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn Cometh in in his season." In the morning of that day he was conflicting with the king of terrors —... | |
 | Andrew Hudleston - 1850 - 384 pages
...should cast off his unripe grape as the vine, and his flower as the olive, the righteous should come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season." The same Almighty Being hath not only appointed length of days to be the natural... | |
 | 1851 - 606 pages
...angels to untie the bands of animal life. This saintly sufferer and laborious servant of Jesus Christ " came to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in its season." Even during the time of his fatal illness, the vigour of his mind was employed in offering... | |
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... in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season ! " To this vigorous and animated delineation, I shall now add a few particulars from my own observation and reflection. 
