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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. "
A Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations, Comprising Idioms ... - Page 159
edited by - 1908 - 532 pages
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The Theological, Philosophical and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev ..., Volume 6

William Jones - 1801 - 478 pages
...Homer, b. 6. 1. 18 1. C 3 HOW How sublime and affecting is that reflection in the book of Job — " Man that is bom 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 f:" In the same figurative language doth the Psalmist speak...
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Sermons, on practical subjects, Volume 1

Samuel Carr - 1801 - 390 pages
...affections on tilings below. The great and irreversible iaw of nature is this : " 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 1l never continueth...
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The Book of Common Prayer: Reformed Together with the Book of Psalms and a ...

Church of England - 1802 - 604 pages
...come to the grave, and the corpse is laid into the earth, the minister shall say ; MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of trouble : he coineth up, and is cut down like 12 a flower ; a flower; he fleeth like a shadow, and...
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).

1842
...be laid into the earth, the Priest shall say. or the Priest and Clerks shall sing : Man that is bo 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...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1806 - 854 pages
...himself in vain, he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them." — " 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." — " In the midst of life...
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Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and ...

Francis Quarles - 1807 - 410 pages
...nothing but misery, nothing but man ; and in that misery, the paraphrase of man : " Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of trouble." Were not man's time short, man were the miserablest of all creatures, and I the miserablest...
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and Other ...

Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...while the Corfise is made ready to be laid into the earth, shall be sung or said, AN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is Yet,O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, () holy and most merciful Saviour,...
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London;: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 6

David Hughson - 1809 - 820 pages
...through the remaining part of the painful ceremony, but the clergyman's and clerk's — "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; ha flecth, as it were, a shadow, and never continneth...
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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacrements...

Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...-while the Corpse is made ready to be laid into the earth, shall be sung or said, 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...
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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. William Jones ..., Volume 4

William Jones - 1810 - 502 pages
...b. 6. 1. 181. 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*:" In the. same figurative language doth the Psalmist speak...
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