 | Stories - 1799 - 188 pàgines
...no employment, nor sport, nor labour, in this uncertain world, that is entirely free from danger. " Dangers stand thick through all the ground To push...us to the tomb, And fierce diseases wait around To hurry mortals home. The year rolls round, and steals away The breath that first it gave ; Whate'er... | |
 | 1802 - 384 pàgines
...; 1ft Whate'er we do, where'er we bs, We 're trav'lling to the grave.] 4. Dangers stand thick thro' all the ground To push us to the tomb, And fierce diseases wait around To hurry mortals home. 5. Good God ! oh what » slender thread Hang everlasting things! Th' eternal states... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pàgines
...gave ; Where'er we are, ^hate'er we do, We're travelling to the grave. 3 Dangers stand thick thro' all the ground, To push us to the tomb ; And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry mortals home. 4 Good GOD ! on what a slender thread Hang everlasting things ! Th' eternal state... | |
 | Robert May - 1812 - 280 pàgines
...1802 — 9196 children died under the age of ten years, and in 1803 — 8222 under ten years of age. " Dangers stand thick through all the ground, To push...us to the tomb, And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry children home." Thus, we find, that " it is appointed unto all once to die, but after this the... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pàgines
...i,t gave ; Whate'er we do, where'er we be, We're traveling to the grave. Dangers stand thick thro' all the ground, To push us to the tomb ; And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry mortals home. Good God ! on what a slender thread Hang everlasting things ! Th' eternal states... | |
 | Stevenson MacGill - 1813 - 278 pàgines
...pursue, still one direction have; Where'er we be, wliate'er we do, we're trav'lling to the grave. ' S Dangers stand thick through all the ground, to push...us to the tomb, And fierce diseases wait around, to hurry mortals home. •!• Great God! what awful things depend upon life's passing day ; And how may... | |
 | 1842 - 634 pàgines
...happiness. Throughout the whole of our course we are in danger from accidents, diseases, and imprudence ; " Dangers stand thick through all the ground, To push...to the tomb ; And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry mortals home !'' The scenery was as various as the company : sometimes uninteresting and monotonous... | |
 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - 1814 - 696 pàgines
...it gave ; Whate'er we do, where'er we be, We're traveling to the grave. 4 Dangers stand thick thro' all the ground. To push us to the tomb ; And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry mortals home. 5 Great God ! on what a slender thread Hang everlasting things ! Th' eternal state... | |
 | John Wesley, Charles Wesley - 1816 - 602 pàgines
...away The hreath that first it gave : Whate'er we do, where'er we he, We're travelling to the grave. 4 Dangers stand thick through all the ground, To push us to the tomh ; And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry mortals home. 5 Great God I on what a slender thread... | |
 | John Wesley - 1818 - 306 pàgines
...away The breath that first it gave ; Whate'er we do, where'er we be, We're travelling to the grave. 4 Dangers stand thick through all the ground To push...us to the tomb ; And fierce diseases wait around To hurry mortals home. 5 Great God ! on what a slender thread Hang everlasting things ! The eternal states... | |
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Dangers stand thick through all the ground, To push us to the tomb ; And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry mortals home. 5 Good God, on what a slender thread Hang everlasting things ! Th... 
