| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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