| Stories - 1799 - 188 pages
...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... | |
| Robert May - 1812 - 280 pages
...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... | |
| Stevenson MacGill - 1813 - 278 pages
...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... | |
| 1842 - 634 pages
...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 us to the tomb ; And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry mortals home !'' The scenery was as various as the... | |
| 1815 - 296 pages
...year rolls round, and steals away The breath that first it gave; Whate'er «e <lo, where'er we be, We're travelling to the grave.] 4 Dangers stand thick through all the To push us to the tomb; [ground, And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry mortals home. p 5 Good God!... | |
| 1816 - 292 pages
...The year rolls round,' and steals away The breath that first it gave; Whafe'er we do, where'er we be, We're travelling to the grave. 4 Dangers stand thick through all the ground, To push ns to the tomb; And fierce diseases wait around, To Hurry mortals home. 5 Great God ! on what a slender... | |
| John Wesley - 1818 - 306 pages
...The year rolls round, and steals 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... | |
| Richard Herne Shepherd - 1818 - 684 pages
...year rolls round, and steals 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 groin To push us to the tomb, And fierce diseases wait around, To hurry mortals home. 5 Good God !... | |
| Abner Kneeland - 1819 - 666 pages
...round, and steals away The breath that first it gave; Wiiatc'tr we do, where'er <ve be, We're trav'lling 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 Yet while a world of joy or woe Depends... | |
| Mary Cooper - 1819 - 306 pages
...come, when every man will be judged according to his works. Death will be decisive to my soul, and ' dangers stand thick through all the ground to push us to the tomb.' O my soul, be not satisfied till thou hast evidence of acceptance with God; till thy worldly... | |
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