 | William Jones (of Nayland.) - 1829 - 654 pages
...are the generations of men. "f How sublime and affecting is that reflection in the book of Job — "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery; he cometh up like a flower, and is cut down :" J in the same figurative language doth the Psalmist speak of the... | |
 | Church of England - 1829 - 668 pages
...It made ready to be laid inlo the earth, the friett shall say, or the PHett via Clerki shall ttiig : MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He conieth up, and li cut down, like a flower; he Hecth as it were a shadow, and never continuctli in... | |
 | 1829 - 442 pages
...they come to tlie grave, whi the Corpse is made ready to be laid in the earth, shall lie sun- or said, MAN, that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery, lie comet up, and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow, an never continueth in one... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 pages
...Iv iavTif ffptt, which reminds one of the yet more tersely expressed saying of our burial service, " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery ;" which seems formed from Genes. 47, 9. Job 5, 7. See also Eccles. 8, 7. Goeller thinks that the whole... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 pages
...Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, And stand upon the threshold of the new. WiLLEE. " MAN that is born of a woman, hath but a short time...were, a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. ' " Every thing changeth in nature—every thing alters — every thing perishes; the body of man is... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 358 pages
...our petitions, make us to ask such things as shall please thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. IN the midst of life, we are in death : of whom may we seek...thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased ? Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into... | |
 | 1830 - 756 pages
...intended to be conveyed, enables him more fully to comprehend the latter. Thus, in the sentence, " He cometh up and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth...it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay ; " by pointing, on the tablet of the reader's memory, to the idea of a flower, which he has seen growing... | |
 | Morning watch - 1830 - 814 pages
...assistance of any image besides : as when we say, " David the son of Jesse reigned over Israel ; " or, " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." Figurative language is that which, by referring to some.image or idea with which the mind of the reader... | |
 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - 1831 - 438 pages
...Jesus Christ. Then the Minister, either at the Grave, or in the body of the Church, shall say, MAN who is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live,...thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased ? Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Father, deliver us not into... | |
 | Rev. Thomas Stanley Monck (the younger.) - 1831 - 186 pages
...born unto trouble, as the * Gen. i. 31. t Gen. ii. 17, 19. t Job, v. 7. sparks fly upward." — * He hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery...were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay." This fallen world is now " filled with lamentation and mourning and woe," the dismal offspring of sin.... | |
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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. 
