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" MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. "
Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged ... - Page 351
by Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 690 pages
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A Voyage Round the World: And Visits to Various Foreign Countries in the ...

Fitch Waterman Taylor - 1843 - 676 pages
...services, as all, uncovered and with the silence of the dead, listened to the affecting ritual : " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow,...
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Prayers Adapted to Various Occasions of Social Worship, for which Provision ...

Alexander Viets Griswold - 1843 - 288 pages
...the infirmity of our nature and the sorrow of our hearts, and pardon our manifold offences. Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery : he cometh up and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth, as it were a shadow,...
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The Churchman's Sunday companion, Volumes 1-2

1844 - 320 pages
...resurrection and the life. Whosoever believeth in me shall not perish, but hath everlasting life." Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery ; he cometh up and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow,...
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Sermons, preached at Winchester college

George Moberly - 1844 - 386 pages
...ones. And we have awful warnings, too, that our earthly life is frail and uncertain : that man which is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery ; that he cometh up. and is cut down like a flower, that he fleeth as it were...
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Plain Practical Sermons, Volume 1

John Wood Warter - 1844 - 608 pages
...truth, that their days are but, " as it were, a span long '." Who considereth well that " man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery?" that "he cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower ?" that " he fleeth as it...
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The Catechism of Thomas Becon, S.T.P. Chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer ...

Thomas Becon - 1844 - 692 pages
...Jam« »'. a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away." " Л man that Job *¡v. is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. lie cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flieth as it were a shadow,...
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At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack and John White

Donald Harman Akenson, Don Akenson - 1992 - 264 pages
...that she is in charge now, that for all intents and purposes she is the man of the family. Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He camella up, and is cut down, like a flower; iie fleeth as it were a shadow,...
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Georgia Voices: Fiction

Hugh Ruppersburg - 1992 - 606 pages
...solemn silence was broken by the faltering voice of the surgeon, who read the burial service. "Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow,...
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 4

W. Somerset Maugham - 1993 - 472 pages
...passengers, the white stewards and the European officers. The missionary read the burial service. 'Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; hefleeth as it were a shadow,...
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A Brief History of the Episcopal Church

David L. Holmes - 1993 - 260 pages
...Book of Common Prayer, phrases from the burial service became part of the common language: Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. ... In the midst of life we are in death. . . . Forasmuch as it hath pleased...
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