| Augustus Charles Thompson - 1859 - 300 pages
...Reckless and proud ; Lest, while ye dream not, Time spread thy shroud. FLEETNESS OF LIFE. " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and Borrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." — PJ. xc. 10. BEHOLD How short a span Was long... | |
| 1863 - 302 pages
...Reckless and proud ; Lest, while ye dream not, Time spread thy shroud. FLEETNESS OF LIFE. " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it u noon cut off, and we fly away." — Pj. xc. 10. BEHOLD How short a span Was long enough, of old,... | |
| John Ware - 1863 - 466 pages
...probably as true now as when they were uttered nearly three thousand years ago : — " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow." This now, as it was then, is the lot of humanity ; and •with most of those who exceed this period,... | |
| William Aitken - 1863 - 782 pages
...deferred, than was wont, to beyond that period when, in the words of the inspired Psalmist, it is recorded that " the days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." It has been observed... | |
| Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...supernatural, and spiritual forms and relationships are represented. We there read : " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow." That this description is not to be understood literally, but refers to the fundamental principles of... | |
| William Aitken - 1864 - 988 pages
...deferred, than was wont, to beyond that period when, in the words of the inspired Psalmist, it ia recorded that "the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." It has been observed... | |
| Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1865 - 334 pages
...ready to receive them. Mr. Hillard then proceeded as follows : — The Psalmist says, " The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength, labor and sorrow." The latter part of this sentence is not altogether true ; at least, it is not without exceptions as... | |
| William Aitken - 1866 - 976 pages
...deferred, than was wont, to beyond that period when, in the words of the inspired Psalmist, it is recorded that " the days of our years are threescore years...fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow." It has been observed by a popular writer that there never were any specifics discovered against the... | |
| William Smellie, John Ware - 1866 - 468 pages
...are probably as true now as when they were uttered nearly three thousand years ago: — " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow." This now, as it was then, is the lot of humanity; and with most of those who exceed this period, the... | |
| 1866 - 474 pages
...all our days are passed away in thy wrath ; We spend our years as a talc that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; And if by...be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and Borrow : for it is soon cut off and we fly away. 1 1 Who knoweth the power of thine anger ? Even according... | |
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