 | Salomon Gessner - 1814 - 678 sider
...stately building; and, as we entered the apartment, I heard a person, with a mournful tone of »oice, thus express himself: " Few and evil have been the...full of sorrow." What is the meaning of this ? said 1; this is a strange kind of saying. To which he replied, You will understand this better hereafter.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 328 sider
...the old Patriarch• to Pharaoh may be adopted by every man at the close of the longest life — " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." Whether we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can... | |
 | John Macgowan - 1818 - 248 sider
...remember not that my eyes were ever struck with such a venerable form." The patriarch replied, " But few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage: I am now in the hundred and thirtieth year of my age; but the many sorrows interwoven in my lot, the... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1840 - 644 sider
...ip his only son? Who can weigh Jacob's various rials, and the sense he had of them, when he said, ' few and evil have been the days of the years of my )ilgrimage." Joseph, when sold a stranger into a itrange land, imprisoned under false charges. Of the... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1824 - 526 sider
...time wherein thou wert pleased to sojourn upon earth ; yet I may well say, with thy holy patriarch, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage," Gen. xlvii. 9 ; few in number, evil in condition ; few in themselves, but none at all to thee, with... | |
 | 1826 - 440 sider
...of the old patriarch to Pharaoh may be adopted by every man at the close of the longest life. — ' Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage.' Whether we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 sider
...time wherein thou wert pleased to sojourn upon earth; yet I may well say with thine holy patriarch, "Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage," Gen. xlvii. 9. Few in number, evil in condition ; few in themselves, but none at all to thee, with... | |
 | 1830 - 508 sider
...reply, with a desire to " minister to edification," " The days of the years of my pilgrimage — — : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 sider
...Father's house ! Welcome the kingdom of my redeeming Lord ! the dwellmg of joy, the crown of glory ! Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage, but now those few and evil days have come to their end ; and I enter an eternity, where days, and weeks,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 sider
...of the okl "Patriarch to Pharaoh may be adopted by every man at the close of the longest life— " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." Whether we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream; and we can... | |
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How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life... 
