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" Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so. "
Specimens of American Eloquence: Consisting of Choice Selections from the ... - Page 277
1837 - 383 pages
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The Scotch Minister's Assistant, Or, A Collection of Forms: For Celebrating ...

Church of Scotland - 1802 - 332 pages
...Our foundation is in the duft, and we dwell in cottages of clay. • Man that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble: he cometh forth like a flower, he fleeth alfo as a fhadow and is not. Lord, what is man? Surely every man livingj even at his beft...
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The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: The sermons of Mr. Yorick

Laurence Sterne - 1805 - 470 pages
...CHRIST. Amen, Job's account of the Shortness and Troubles of Life, considered. JoB xiv. i, 2. flan that is born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble : He comet h forth like a flower, and is cut down ; he Jlteth also as a shadow, and continueth not. THERE...
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The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author, Volume 4

Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 pages
...18-1. JOB'S ACCOUNT OF THE SHORTNESS AND TROUBLES OF LIFK CONSIDERED. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble : — He cometh forth like a flower, anil is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. — —Job. xiv. 1, 2. SERMON XI....
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The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A ...

Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 pages
...this is much rather to lie preferred, or better — Pnn» I. 23. ' MAN that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble: he cometh forth like a flower, aud is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not ; and dost thou open thine eyes upon...
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The Unitarian Miscellany and Christian Monitor, Volume 3

Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1822 - 366 pages
...himself, whose works are so fragile, where is he? The history of his works is the history of himself. He existed; he is gone. The nature of human life cannot...immediately precedes the text. "Man, that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth...
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An Amended Version of the Book of Job: With an Introduction and Notes ...

George Rapall Noyes - 1827 - 214 pages
...feet. 28 And I, like an abandoned thing, shall waste away ; Like a garment, which is moth-eaten. XIV. 1 Man, that is born of woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down ; He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review

1828 - 506 pages
...cruelty. But observe, fourthly, the wisdom of God in directing and controlling these sorrowful events. ' " Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble." He is a sufferer ; his bosom bleeds with anguish ; but this very suffering is benignly made a bond of...
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A Tribute of Sympathy: Addressed to Mourners

William Newnham - 1832 - 258 pages
...certain approach of death to a very distant, and yet more distant day. " Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flbwer, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."* Human life, indeed, is aptly...
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The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry: By J.G. Herder. Translated from ..., Volumes 1-2

Johann Gottfried Herder - 1833 - 626 pages
...it is impossible, that there is no return from the dominions of the dead. * Gen. ix. 4—6. 170 Man, born of woman, • • Is of few days, And full of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down, He fleeth also as a shadow, And continueth not. Upon such dost thou open...
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Miscellaneous Sermons Preached in the Parish Church of Cheltenham

Francis Close - 1834 - 462 pages
...a frail, perishing creature of a day, that dies before the moth ! " Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble ; he cometh forth like a flower ;" he may be blooming and gay, and diffusing fragrance around him, but " like a flower he is cut down...
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