 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 390 pages
...affections on tilings below. The great and irreversible iaw of nature is this : " Man that is born of a woman " hath but a short time to live, and is...he cometh up, and is cut down like " a flower, he fleeth as it were a shadow, and 1l never continueth in one stay." Whatever, therefore, may be our most... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - 478 pages
...ground. Pope's Homer, b. 6. 1. 18 1. How sublime and affecting is that reflection in the book of Job—" Man that is bom 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 f:" In the same figurative language doth the Psalmist speak of the flourishing... | |
 | Churchman - 1801 - 296 pages
...which it may be protected from evil, and thereby made effectual to our salvation. " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery" — but still more miserable is his state if he knows not that he is so, for then he never seeks those... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1816 - 568 pages
...of heaven's blessings! While this day reminds us, in the most forcible terms, " that man who is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery—that he cometh up and is cut down like a flower— that in the midst of life we are in death;"... | |
 | 1821 - 530 pages
...contemplation of my own concluding hours, than to the writing accounts of those of others. " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full...misery. "He cometh up and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay." O that we may be found ready — to... | |
 | 1842
...be laid into the earth, the Priest shall say. or the Priest and Clerks shall sing : Man that is bo 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 one stay. 3. the Priest shall say, Forasmuch as... | |
 | Church of England - 1802 - 604 pages
...come to the grave, and the corpse is laid into the earth, the minister shall say ; MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of trouble : he coineth up, and is cut down like 12 a flower ; a flower; he fleeth like a shadow, and... | |
 | 1806 - 854 pages
...himself in vain, he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them." — " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full...misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He fleeth as it were a shadow." — " In the midst of life we are in death." The attachment which subsisted... | |
 | John Fairburn - 1806 - 54 pages
...which Time , a grand tolemn Dirge was played on the Organ; aj'ter which was sung, / Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is...misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he llecth as it-were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death... | |
 | Francis Quarles - 1807 - 410 pages
...but misery, nothing but man ; and in that misery, the paraphrase of man : " Man that is born of p 4 a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of trouble." Were not man's time short, man were the miserablest of all creatures, and I the miserablest... | |
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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 one stay. 
