 | Sketches - 1799 - 204 pages
...mentioning, in conversation, about six months before his death, the words of the psalmist — " The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow," he added with a smile, " But I have not found them either labour or sorrow." Much of this freshness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 428 pages
...twice-told tale,] Our author here, and in another play, seems to have had the 90th Psalm in his thoughts. " For all our days are passed away in thy wrath; we spend our years, as a tale that is told." So again, in Macheth : " Life 's hut a walking shadow;— " ' it is a tale " Told hy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 pages
...twice-told tale,] Our author here, and in another play, seems to have had the 90th Psalm in his thoughts. " For all our days are passed away in thy wrath ; we spend our years, as a tale that is told" So again, in Macheth: " Life 's hut a walking shadow ;— " it is a tale " Told hy an... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 pages
...reduction afterwards, when Israel sinned and perished in the wilderness. Then it was said, The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we, fly araay. Though a strong constitution and the proper government of the appetites and passions... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...makes us meet for the mansions of the blessed ! Amen. The Brevity of Human Life. SERMON XXXV. PSAL. Xc. 10. The days of our years are threescore years and...yet is their strength labour and, sorrow ; for it is so$n cut off, and we fly away.. . JLT has been maintained by some that the exact period of human life... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...to see a hundred and twenty years, hath set man's ordinary period at half his own term : The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and, if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; Ps. xc. 10. Lo, fourscore years alone are load enough for the strength, much more for the weakness,... | |
 | William Romaine - 1809 - 212 pages
...age. LT is appointed unto all men once to die. The time is fixed by an immutable decree. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...yet is their strength labour and sorrow : for it is cut soon off, and we flee away. If some be permitted to live longer, yet the infirmities of old age... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 524 pages
...troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 402 pages
...troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath :. We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 542 pages
...troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they... | |
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 
