 | William Mason - Devotional calendars - 1765 - 522 pages
...we die. The sum total of human life is justly calculated by the hoary-headed patriarch, Jacob, "Pew and evil have the days of the years of my life been," Gen. xlvii. 9. A truth this that lies level with the common observation and judgment of all men ; but... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1765 - 482 pages
...himfelf explains it to be, not on account of the fhortnefs of human life in general, but, becaufe he had not attained unto the days of the years of the life of bis fathers. The fenfe therefore, which the writer of the epiftle to the Hebrews puts upon thele words,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - Sermons - 1767 - 308 pages
...SERMON VII. GENESIS xlvii. 9. And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage, are an hundred and thirty years : fe-w and evil have the days of the years of my life beenTH F. RE is not a man in hiftory, whom I pity more, than the man who made this reply not becaufe... | |
 | Mary Deverell - 1776 - 312 pages
...might we not reply as that Patriarch did to Pharaoh, after he had given in the number of his days ; Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. It was a monarch's queftion, and. therefore needs no excufe. BUT, perhaps, it may be objected, that... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...unto Jacob, How old art thou ? 9 And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days or" the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1790 - 446 pages
...my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life life been^ and have not attained unto the days of...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage. But the peculiar circumftances of the Patriarch, or the number of his years, are not to be the fubject... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1790 - 458 pages
...naturally fuited to his time of life. And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my 7 lfi 46 Qti the Improvement of %"unt. SER M. life been* and have not attained unto the daVf III. •... | |
 | John Burton - Education - 1794 - 462 pages
...c on fid er ably greater than they are at prefeat. The days of the years of my Pilgrimage, fays he, are an. hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have...life been, and have not attained unto the days of the If ears of the life of my fathers > :ff he meant by his Fathers, thofe who lived before the flood,... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 512 pages
...little good has been got and done by you ? May you not Jay with Ja'cob to Pharaoh, Gen. xlvii. 9. " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been ?" Do you reckon you have lived no longer than fmce you began to live unto God? Is it your grief, that... | |
 | Bible - 1799 - 224 pages
...his royal hearer the vanity of all sublunary things : — " The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." Gen. xlvii. 9. Having taught this lesson to the monarch, Jacob again blessed Pharaoh, and then withdrew... | |
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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their... 
