 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 428 pàgines
...this life had been referved for them, that faying of old Jacob, towards the conclufion of his life, Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, would have been an eternal reflexion upon the truth and faithfulnefs of him who had fo often called... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - 418 pàgines
...forth like a flower, and is cut down : hefteeth alfo as a Jhadow, and continueth not. Gen. xlvii. 9. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been : this was old Jacob's account of himfelf. And men that have been ferious and confiderate, have thus... | |
 | John Smith - 1752 - 264 pàgines
...life had continued : The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years, feyj and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the yean of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage, Gen. xlvii. 9. But in... | |
 | John Smith - 1752 - 270 pàgines
...Pharaoh how long his life had continued : The days of the years ef my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years* few and evil have the days of the years of my life heen, and have not attained unto the days of thg years of the life of my fathers, in the days... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 482 pàgines
...xlvii. 9. where Jacob fays to Pharaoh, " The days of the years of my pilgrimage " are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil " have the days of the years of my life been." Thefe good men were " ftrangers and fojourners" in a land, which was promifed to be theirs afterwards.... | |
 | William Warburton - 1765 - 482 pàgines
...them. 2. " The days of the years of my pilgrimage, '* (fays JACOB to Pharaoh) are an hundred and " thirty years : few and evil have the days of the *'...of my life been, and have not attained " unto the days of the years of the life of my fa" thers in the days of their pilgrimagejl." — From this fpeech... | |
 | William Mason - 1765 - 522 pàgines
...we die. The sum total of human life is justly calculated by the hoary-headed patriarch, Jacob, "Pew and evil have the days of the years of my life been," Gen. xlvii. 9. A truth this that lies level with the common observation and judgment of all men ; but... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1767 - 308 pàgines
...GENESIS xlvii. 9. And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage, are an hundred and thirty years : fe-w and evil have the days of the years of my life beenTH F. RE is not a man in hiftory, whom I pity more, than the man who made this reply not becaufe... | |
 | Mary Deverell - 1776 - 312 pàgines
...might we not reply as that Patriarch did to Pharaoh, after he had given in the number of his days ; Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. It was a monarch's queftion, and. therefore needs no excufe. BUT, perhaps, it may be objected, that... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pàgines
...days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days or" the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. to And Jacob blefled Pharaoh,... | |
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Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been... 
