| Laurence Sterne - 1776 - 198 Seiten
...may GOD grant. Amen. SERMON VII. The Hiftory of JACOB confidered. GENESIS xlvii. 9. And Jacob J "aid unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few end evil have the days of the years of my life been. • THERE is not a man in hiftory, whom I pity... | |
| 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... | |
| 1788 - 598 Seiten
...Pharaoh : and Jacob blefled Pharaoh. % And Pharaoh faid unto Jacob, How old art thou ? 9 And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage...hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days or" the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1790 - 458 Seiten
...produced, in his anfwer, fuch reflections as were naturally fuited to his time of life. And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage...years : few and evil have the days of the years of my 7 lfi 46 Qti the Improvement of %"unt. SER M. life been* and have not attained unto the daVf III. •... | |
| 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,... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 512 Seiten
...little good has been got and done by you ? May you not Jay with Ja'cob to Pharaoh, Gen. xlvii. 9. " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been ?" Do you reckon you have lived no longer than fmce you began to live unto God? Is it your grief, that... | |
| 1803 - 498 Seiten
...affecting anfvver : The days of the ', years of my pilgrimage are an hun\ dred and thirty fears : feiu and evil have the days of the years: of my life been. The afflicted Jobexclaimed: My days arc fwlfter than a weaver's JLuttk. And again : My days are fwifler... | |
| 1801 - 430 Seiten
...art thou ?' And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, "The days o the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred anc thirty years; few and evil have the days of the * years of my life been." And Jacob blefled Pharaoh. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt feventeen years, and he died." " Now when... | |
| Samuel Carr - 1801 - 366 Seiten
...recommend. SERMON XXXV. 1 JOHN ii. ver. 17. latter part. He that doeth the will of God, abidethfor ever. and evil have the days of the years of my life been," was the language of good old Jacob to Pharaoh, in ancient times. And little, I fear, is the state of... | |
| William Jones - 1801 - 486 Seiten
...thought his advice •worth listening to : let us think it so now, and weigh it accordingly — Fezo and evil have the days of the years of my life been — He had lived an hundred and thirty years ; and does he call these butfrzv ? To us who look forward... | |
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