 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 448 pages
...the fons of Heth, 7 am a flranger and a fojourner -with you ; and chap, xlvii. 9. where Jacob fays to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are...an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the tAe days of the years of my life been. Theft good men •were grangers andfojourners in a land which... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 428 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 270 pages
...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 pages
...fons of 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...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 pages
...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 pages
...grant. Amen. 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,...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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. •... | |
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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 vears of my life been... 
