 How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...  The Port Folio - Stran 231819Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1805 - 590 strani
...Egypt. Himself most faithfully gave the history of his life in the following impressive description, Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage — but this for him was the right way to honor and peace in the closing scene of life, and that blessed... | |
 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 strani
...longevity of the antediluvian world. " Few and evil," says the patriarch, with pathetic simplicity, " few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 454 strani
...the seasons, and though I have marked their flight so often, I know not which is the swiftest. Man is never so deluded as when he dreams of his own duration....my pilgrimage." Whether we look back from fifty, or froni twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can only be said truly to have lived while... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 348 strani
...not which is the fwifteft. Man is never fb deluded as when he dieams of his own duration. The anfwer of the old Patriarch to Pharaoh may be adopted by every man at the clofe of the longeft life. " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." Whether... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 228 strani
...the seasons ; and though 1 have marked their flight so often, I know not which is the swiftest. Man is never so deluded as when he dreams of his own duration....the years of my pilgrimage." Whether we look back ffrom fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can only be said truly... | |
 | John Macgowan - 1806 - 286 strani
...remember not that my eyes were ever struck with such a venerable form." The patriarch replied, " But few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage ; I am now in the hundred and thirtieth year of my age ; but the many sorrows interwoven in my lot,... | |
 | Juvenal - 1806 - 578 strani
...longevity of the antediluvian world. " Few and evil," says the Patriarch, with pathctick simplicity, " few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their... | |
 | 1808 - 530 strani
...Pharao, The days of the years of my life which I am now sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. They have not reached to the days of the years of the 10 life of my fathers which they sojourned.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 486 strani
...seasons, and though I have marked 162 their flight so often, I know not which is the swiftest. Man is never so deluded as when he dreams of his own duration....close of the longest life. " Few and evil have been thedays ofthe years of my pilgrimage." Whether we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the past... | |
 | 1812 - 352 strani
...the college of Kenwelken, where he flourishes as a hoary oak in the wood of Arden. " COWPERIANA." MAN is never so deluded as when he dreams of his own duration. Whether we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can... | |
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