| John Smith - 1752 - 270 Seiten
...account unto 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 Seiten
...Heth, *' I am a ftranger and a fojourner witk you;" and Gen. xlvii. 9. where Jacob fays to Pharaoh, " The days of the years of my pilgrimage " are an hundred...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 Mason - 1765 - 522 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Warburton - 1765 - 482 Seiten
...himfelf explains it to be, not on account of the fhortnefs of human life in general, but, becaufe he had not attained unto the days of the years of the life of bis fathers. The fenfe therefore, which the writer of the epiftle to the Hebrews puts upon thele words,... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1767 - 308 Seiten
...SERMON VII. The Hiftory of JAGOB, confidered. SERMON VII. GENESIS xlvii. 9. And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage, are an hundred...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... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1767 - 256 Seiten
...SERMON VII. The Hiftory of JACO confidered. SERMON VII. GENESIS xlvii. 9. And Jacoh /aid unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage, are an hundred and thirty years : feiv and evil have the days of the years of my life heen. TH ERE is not a man in hiftory, whom I... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1776 - 198 Seiten
...Amen. SERMON VII. The Hiftory of JACOB confidered. GENESIS xlvii. 9. And Jacob J "aid unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few end evil have the days of the years of my life been. • THERE is not a man in hiftory, whom I pity... | |
| Mary Deverell - 1776 - 312 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...Jacob blefled Pharaoh. % And Pharaoh faid unto Jacob, How old art thou ? 9 And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, The 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... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1790 - 446 Seiten
...anfwer, fuch reflexions as were naturally fuited to his time of life. And 'Jacob faid unto Pharaoh , the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred...years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life life been^ and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the... | |
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