 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 428 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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,... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 482 sivua
...Jacob fays to Pharaoh, " 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." Thefe good men were " ftrangers and fojourners" in a land, which was promifed to be theirs afterwards.... | |
 | William Warburton - 1765 - 482 sivua
...days of the years of my pilgrimage, '* (fays JACOB to Pharaoh) are an hundred and " thirty years : few and evil have the days of the *' years of my life been, and have not attained " unto the days of the years of the life of my fa" thers in the days of their... | |
 | William Mason - 1765 - 522 sivua
...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... | |
 | Mary Deverell - 1776 - 312 sivua
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel May - 1793 - 320 sivua
...Jacob faid unto Pha.raoh, The days of the years of my pilgritnags are an hundred and thirty years ; few and •evil have the days of the years of my life been, •and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the day.S of their... | |
 | John Burton - 1794 - 462 sivua
...are at prefeat. The days of the years of my Pilgrimage, fays he, are an. hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the If ears of the life of my fathers > :ff he meant by his... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 512 sivua
...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... | |
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Pharaoh, 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... 
