 The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.  Littell's Living Age - Page vi1855Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 324 pages
...FLEETNESS OF LIFE. "The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if hy reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." — Ps. xc. 10. < BEHOLD How short a span Was long enough, of old, To measure out the... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 pages
...fixed the term of his political existence at the age which the Psalmist assigns for the limit of manly life : " The days of our years are threescore years...strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off. and we fly away. " He touched that age in 1828 ; and, true to all his purposes, he was true to his resolve... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1854 - 300 pages
...waste thy days, Reckless and proud ; Lest, while ye dream not, Time spread thy shroud. FLEETNESS OF LIFE. " The days of our years are threescore years...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." — PJ. xc. 10. BEHOLD How short a span Was long enough, of old, To measure out the life... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 pages
...fixed the term of his political existence at the ago which the Psalmist assigns for the limit of manly life : " The days of our years are threescore years...strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. " He touched that age in 1828 ; and, true to all his purposes, he was true to his resolve... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards - 1854 - 572 pages
...countenance. For our days arc passed away in thy wrath ; we spend our days as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger ? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1854 - 446 pages
...battle, mighty in labor, is weak as an infant's. So vividly true are the sacred words : " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow : for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." Man's physical constitution enters, then, a protest against his living here alway. The... | |
 | 1873 - 768 pages
...David was only seventy-five years old ; Solomon a little over fifty. Said the Psalmist : "The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and If by...strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away ;" evidently seeming to think that seventy or eighty years was a long time to live. Only... | |
 | Lowell Mason - 1854 - 378 pages
...are passed away | in tfi'y | wrath: Wo spend our years as a | ta-le | tliat is | told. The days of our years are three-score years and ten, and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, | and wo | fly a- | way. Who kuoweth tho power | of thine | anger: Even according to thy fear, j so is I... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 316 pages
...hundred and twenty years. Some one will say, " Ah! you must forget the ninetieth Psalm : ' The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by...strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.' " It is not that I forget it, but that some misinterpret it. For where was that Psalm... | |
 | Sylvester Graham - 1854 - 750 pages
...reasoning leaves God out of sight, and contradicts the sacred scripture which affirms that ' the days of our years are three-score years and ten, and if by...strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.' I reply that if God had actually and absolutely limited human life to seventy or eighty... | |
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