| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...come to the Grave, -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... | |
| William Jones - 1810 - 502 pages
...ground. Pope's Homer, 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... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1812 - 136 pages
...us what was afterwards expressed in terms at large, by another of the afflicted servants of God — Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, andis full of misery : lie. cometh up, "and is cut down like a flower; he fleethas it were a shadow,... | |
| John George Phillimore - 1815 - 284 pages
...concluded that the serious is the true criterion of human genius, and exhibits our true nature. "/ Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." There is only one comic writer, who walks at the side of Sophocles and Corneille — it is M oliere... | |
| Church of England - 1815 - 450 pages
...it made ready to be lout into the sarth, the Priat shall my, or the Priest ami Clerks shall sing : 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 continued! in... | |
| William Dodd - 1815 - 236 pages
...one, and meet the other with more courage and constancy. For what is man, and what is his life ? — Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, — short indeed, suppose it to extend to the utmost length of human existence, even to fourscore years.... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1816 - 372 pages
...be concluded that the serious is the true criterion of human genius, and exhibits our true nature. " Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." There is only one comic writer, who walks at the side of Sophocles aiid Corneille—it is Moliere;... | |
| Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...ready to be laid into tkt earth, the Priest shall say, or the Prust and Clerks ¡ball sing : JVlAN that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and i» cut down like a flower ; he fleeth к it were a shadow, and never continueth... | |
| 1817 - 590 pages
...us what was afterward expressed in terms it large, by another of the afflicted servants of God — Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and isjull of misery : he cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; hefleeth as it were a shadow, and... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 pages
...us, what was afterwards expressed in terms at large by another of the afflicted servants of God — 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... | |
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