| John Ellsworth Goodrich - 1877 - 108 pages
...for itself, are prepared for this people in the coming century, we may not assume to foretell. " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever," and we reverently hope that these our constituted liberties shall be maintained to the unending line... | |
| 1877 - 600 pages
...has reached its highest unfoldment, and which demands a change — and change is continued life. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - 1878 - 1042 pages
...real solution itself, while the constant refrain in the song of existence sounded behind him, "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever." The evanescent phenomena, the tragic plot and scenery of human birth, action, and death, conceived on the... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - 1878 - 224 pages
...will one day crumble, and all merely aionion things will cease to be. Prof. Tayler Lewis says, "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever.' This certainly indicates, not an endless eternity in the strictest sense of the word, but only a future... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1879 - 660 pages
...clay, Spring from thy bones, and blossom on thy tomb, That of its fruit thy babes may eat and die ? . THUS do the generations of the earth Go to the grave, and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world. Even as the leaves Which the keen... | |
| 1880 - 592 pages
...1880. Entered at the Poat-offlce. Boston, Hue., it Meond-cfats moil matter. AUTUMN PHILOSOPHY. i "ONE generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever." "What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?" "The thing that hath been... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 616 pages
...than vain ; And but for thee I ne'er had sate The guardian of heaven's palace gate. V.— PAGE 420. Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave...and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 660 pages
...clay, Spring from thy bones, and blossom on thy tomb, 1 hat of its fruit thy babes may eat and die ? V. Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave, and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world ; even as the leaves Which the keen... | |
| Sampson Reed - 1880 - 160 pages
...he believed that the world would not come to an end. To this he replied that he believed that " One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." This passage, though taken from Ecclesiastes, was good authority for those to whom it was presented.... | |
| Paul Isaac Hershon - 1880 - 416 pages
...and so also it is to be, providing the numbers are equal (Machsheerin, chap. 2, Mish. 7.) (m.) " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever " (Eccl. i. 4). One empire cometh and another passeth away, but Israel abideth forever. (Perek Hashalom.)... | |
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