 | 1847 - 784 sider
...no more seen," said Mr. Clermont ; " hut what ever may betide, I cannot say w-jth ihe Patriarch, ' Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage.' For 1 have lived many and my life has been crowned with many undeserved mercies." Before Beninah returned... | |
 | Isaac BRIDGMAN - 1847 - 80 sider
...statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage. I am younger than he who said to Pharaoh—' few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage on the earth.' How much fewer then are mine ! God knoweth the way I would take; and he knoweth the... | |
 | John Cotton Smith - 1847 - 348 sider
...of a century ; and, although much younger than the patriarch Jacob, I can not adopt his complaint, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." On the contrary, it becomes me to confess, with profound gratitude to my glorious Benefactor, that... | |
 | 1847 - 814 sider
...be no more seen," said Mr. Clermont ; " hut what ever may betide, I cannot say with the Patriarch, ' Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage.' For I have lived many and my life has been crowned wiih many undeserved mercies." Before Beninah returned... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1853 - 732 sider
...that when he -was a very old man, and much older than the most that lived after him, he complained, "Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life:" in which complaint the few is explained by the evil; his days were winter-days, and spent in... | |
 | Edward Blackstock - 1853 - 566 sider
...the thorny road through which we had passed, and the words of the Patriarch suited my feelings : " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life," losses, crosses, disappointments, afflictions, and bereavements, have bestrewed our path. But... | |
 | Daniel Ritchie - 1854 - 298 sider
...found exclaiming, on a review of their lives, in language similar to that of the patriarch Jacob, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." We have every reason to conclude that even the life of Methuselah, who attained the acme of longevity,... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 520 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... | |
 | E. Jarmain - 1854 - 252 sider
...shall be filled." * List ye also, to the voice of experience from the younger, but the tried : — " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, But verily there is a peace which passeth understanding ; Doubtless, there is a joy with which... | |
 | Julia Maria Huyshe - 1855 - 170 sider
...died, " pierced through with many sorrows." Jacob's life was such that when he was dying, he said " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." When he left his father's house he got to his uncle Laban, and loved one of his daughters ; but, after... | |
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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... 
