 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 428 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 " are an hundred...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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, are an hundred...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... | |
 | Mary Deverell - 1776 - 312 Seiten
...might we not reply as that Patriarch did to Pharaoh, after he had given in the number of his days ; Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. It was a monarch's queftion, and. therefore needs no excufe. BUT, perhaps, it may be objected, that... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1790 - 446 Seiten
...anfwer, fuch reflexions as were naturally fuited to his time of life. And 'Jacob faid unto Pharaoh , the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred...years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life life been^ and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the... | |
 | John Burton - 1794 - 462 Seiten
...c on fid er ably greater than they are at prefeat. The days of the years of my Pilgrimage, fays he, are an. hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have...life been, and have not attained unto the days of the If ears of the life of my fathers > :ff he meant by his Fathers, thofe who lived before the flood,... | |
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The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been... 
