 | Church of England - 1829 - 660 pages
...the earth, the friett shall say, or the PHett via Clerki shall ttiig : MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He conieth up, and li cut down, like a flower; he Hecth as it were a shadow, and never continuctli in... | |
 | 1829 - 442 pages
...Corpse is made ready to be laid in the earth, shall lie sun- or said, MAN, that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery, lie comet up, and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow, an never continueth in one... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 pages
...reminds one of the yet more tersely expressed saying of our burial service, " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery ;" which seems formed from Genes. 47, 9. Job 5, 7. See also Eccles. 8, 7. Goeller thinks that the whole... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1829 - 244 pages
...be wicked! It is strange that man, who suffers so severely from the violence of the elements," who hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery," should go so far out of his way to multiply uneasy sensations, and should so often dash aside the enjoyment... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 pages
...at once they view, And stand upon the threshold of the new. WiLLEE. " MAN that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery....were, a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. ' " Every thing changeth in nature—every thing alters — every thing perishes; the body of man is... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1830 - 480 pages
...misery. He cometh jp, and is cut down like a flower ; ie fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continued! in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death : Of whom may we seek for uccour, but of thee, О Lord, who or o'ir sins art justly displeased * Yet, 0 Lord God most holy, О... | |
 | Richard Lloyd - 1830 - 412 pages
...prove incurable, let me often use those earnest and fervent petitions in the burial service, — ' of whom may we seek for succour but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art most justly displeased? Yet, O Lord God, most holy, &c. * Heb. x. 9, 10. deliver us not into the bitter... | |
 | John Wesley - 1830 - 568 pages
...required of thee." 5. Is not thy life as unstable as a cloud ; fluctuating, as a bubble on the water ? It fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. "Many years!" Who is sure of one day? And is it not an instance both of the wisdom and goodness of... | |
 | 1830 - 756 pages
...as when we Bay, " David the son of Jesse reigned over Israel ; " or, " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." Figurative language is that which, by referring to some image or idea with which the mind of the reader... | |
 | Rev. Thomas Stanley Monck (the younger.) - 1831 - 186 pages
...born unto trouble, as the * Gen. i. 31. t Gen. ii. 17, 19. t Job, v. 7. sparks fly upward." — * He hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery...were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay." This fallen world is now " filled with lamentation and mourning and woe," the dismal offspring of sin.... | |
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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. 
