| Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 416 pages
...Inconsiderable is the life of man compared with the duration of the world. Solomon observes, " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever," orcontinuethfor ages ; we know not how many. There is a similar expression in the 10-4th Psalm. " God... | |
| Nathanael Howe - 1816 - 40 pages
...reflections on what has been said, and some advice in the choice and treatment of another minister. " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever." Your habits are so firmly fixed, that no reformation is to be expected during my ministry ; and, indeed,... | |
| Nathanael Howe - 1825 - 44 pages
...circumstances are changing. Our relations are changing. The inhabitants of the world are changing. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever. There was formerly a man living in the kingdom of Great Britain, whose name was Edward Hopkins. This... | |
| 1825 - 688 pages
...comparison of our fading life with the constant earth, that filled the mind of the royal moralist. '• One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever." TMfe duration of human life dwindled to a moment in his mind, and the stability of the earth tilled... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1830 - 410 pages
...some travellers have passed, some are passing, while others are only coming in, Eccles. i. 4, 'One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever.' Death is an inexorable, irresistible messenger, who cannot be diverted from executing his orders, by... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...; And but for titee I ne'er had sate The guardian of heaven's pala« jale Note 4, page 113, col 1. cftfr-- lion cometh, but the earth abidetb for ever ТЫ -г л abo ariseth and the sun goeth down,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 132 pages
...earth To twine its roots around thy coffined clay, Spring from thy bones, and blossom on thy tomb, v. THUS do the generations of the earth Go to the grave, and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world ; even as the leaves Which the keen... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 130 pages
...earth That of its fruit thy babes may eat and die ? Spring from thy bones, and blossom on thy tomb, V. THUS do the generations of the earth Go to the grave, and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world; even as the leaves Which the keen... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1832 - 146 pages
...clay, Spring from thy bones, and blossom on thy tomb, That of its fruit thy babes may eat and die? V. THUS do the generations of the earth* Go to the grave,...away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abidcth for ever. The sun also ariseth aud the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place whence he arose.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1835 - 122 pages
...thau vain; Aud but for thee I ne'er had sate The guardian of heaven's palace gate. (5^ (") PAGE 40. Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave,...One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, tut the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to... | |
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