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" How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life... "
The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley ... - Page 151
by William Cowper - 1806
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The Dying Experience of the Late Rev. Isaac Bridgman

Isaac BRIDGMAN - 1847 - 80 pages
...statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage. I am younger than he who said to Pharaoh—' few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage on the earth.' How much fewer then are mine ! God knoweth the way I would take; and he knoweth the...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 13

1847 - 784 pages
...no more seen," said Mr. Clermont ; " hut what ever may betide, I cannot say w-jth ihe Patriarch, ' Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage.' For 1 have lived many and my life has been crowned with many undeserved mercies." Before Beninah returned...
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The Correspondence and Miscellanies of the Hon. John Cotton Smith ...

John Cotton Smith - 1847 - 348 pages
...of a century ; and, although much younger than the patriarch Jacob, I can not adopt his complaint, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." On the contrary, it becomes me to confess, with profound gratitude to my glorious Benefactor, that...
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The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review, Volume 13

1847 - 814 pages
...be no more seen," said Mr. Clermont ; " hut what ever may betide, I cannot say with the Patriarch, ' Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage.' For I have lived many and my life has been crowned wiih many undeserved mercies." Before Beninah returned...
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The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First ...

William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...indeed is leaving us at a rapid rate, as do all the seasons ; and though I have marked their Hight so often, I know not which is the swiftest. Man is never..." Few and evil have been the days of the years of niy pilgrimage." Whether we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream...
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Magnalia Christi Americana : Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England ...

Cotton Mather - 1853 - 732 pages
...that when he -was a very old man, and much older than the most that lived after him, he complained, "Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life:" in which complaint the few is explained by the evil; his days were winter-days, and spent in...
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Mercy manifested to a chief sinner: or, Autobiography and letters of ...

Edward Blackstock - 1853 - 566 pages
...the thorny road through which we had passed, and the words of the Patriarch suited my feelings : " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life," losses, crosses, disappointments, afflictions, and bereavements, have bestrewed our path. But...
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Stray Leaves from a Convict Ship

Daniel Ritchie - 1854 - 298 pages
...found exclaiming, on a review of their lives, in language similar to that of the patriarch Jacob, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." We have every reason to conclude that even the life of Methuselah, who attained the acme of longevity,...
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An invalid's pastime, an offering to the weeping and the weary. [in verse ...

E. Jarmain - 1854 - 252 pages
...shall be filled." * List ye also, to the voice of experience from the younger, but the tried : — " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, But verily there is a peace which passeth understanding ; Doubtless, there is a joy with which...
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The British Millennial Harbinger

1855 - 662 pages
...dim declining age." You will remember the answer of Jacob, when he stood before the Kins of Egypt, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." This is the experience of all. Morning is a time of comparative gladness and of hope. Joy looks upon...
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