 | Richard Cecil - 1791 - 80 pagine
...contemplate prefent things. His days an hand breadth; — his beauty, confumed like the mothfretten garment ; — his cares and pleafures, a dream; —...— his years, a tale; — his ftrength, labour and forrow. So foon is the whole cut off, and fled, that we cannot help repeating with the Pfalmift, Verily... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1806 - 112 pagine
...days an hand breadth; — his beauty confumed like the * Eccl. vii. 4. f Mark viii. 18. moth'fretten garment ; — 'his cares and pleafures a dream /—his...in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withexeth ; — his years, a tale; — his ftrength, labour and farrow. So foon is the whole cut off... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pagine
...moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as the grass; which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 436 pagine
...moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream : his attainments, as the grass j which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and Jled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | 1825 - 434 pagine
...moth-fretten garment; his cares 173 and pleasures, a dream ; his attainments, as the grass, which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth ; his years, a tale ; his strength, labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1830 - 196 pagine
...that is told, to a dream, to a vision of the night; and man, frail man, to a flower, that cometh forth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth ? — Are they not few, when that his ' afflictions endure but for a moment,' is said, to encourage... | |
 | John Flavel - 1841 - 232 pagine
...moth-fretten garment ; his cares and pleasures, a dream ; his attainments, as the grass, which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth ; his years, a tale ; his strength, labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1845 - 768 pagine
...of human life, and to remind us of its vanity. Man is " like grass which groweth up, and flourisheth in the morning, and, in the evening, is cut down and withereth." This image is used both in the Old and New Testament Scriptures, and there is none better calculated... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1847 - 336 pagine
...moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as the grass: which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1850 - 492 pagine
...moth-fret ten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as ihe grass: which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with... | |
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Look at the deceased, and contemplate present things. His days a hand-breadth : his beauty, consumed like the moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as the grass: which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening... 
