| 1842 - 622 sider
...abundance, and the society of all his children. After all these reverses, he was constrained to say, 'Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage.' But if we subtract for the enjoyment | of the 'sweet restorer, balmy sleep,' onethird of the three... | |
| Francis Close - 1842 - 254 sider
...their wickedness : his dearest children were torn from him ; so that in his old age he exclaimed — " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life," &c. (Gen. xlvii. 9.) 2. Their suffering portion is further illustrated hy the figures used in... | |
| 1881 - 396 sider
...nor will it surprise you. On reflection, in one view of the matter, I am ready to say after Jacob, ' Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage," but in another view I cannot but feel that my ministry, compared with that of others whom I have known,... | |
| William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1843 - 496 sider
...days, compared with the generality of the human race, and yet, on looking back, I am ready to say, few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage. I find I have neither storehouse nor barn, nor a rag to cover my many errors, but all are open and... | |
| Henry Blunt - 1844 - 368 sider
...life that ever yet was lived, could, at the end of it, only enable its possessor to say with Jacob, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." We will suppose that while here, your lot is the happiest ever enjoyed by mortals, still all that you... | |
| Henry Blunt - 1844 - 362 sider
...life that ever yet was lived, could, at the end of it, only enable its possessor to say with Jacob, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." We will suppose that while here, your lot is the happiest ever enjoyed by mortals, still all that you... | |
| Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton - 1844 - 534 sider
...said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life wherein I sojourn are a hundred and thirty years, few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned. 10And... | |
| 1845 - 518 sider
...so shall I not eat the fruit of my own way, and, when theu callest me hence, cry out with Israel, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life." O, let the heavenly light of thy wisdom and truth, gracious Father, be a lantern to my feet... | |
| George Oliver - 1846 - 636 sider
...memorial." 12 Notwithstanding all these instances of divine favour, Jacob truly said to Pharoah, " few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage," " He was forced to engage in a tedious and thankless servitnde of seven years with Laban ; at first... | |
| Joshua Bates - 1846 - 644 sider
...in the language of Pharaoh to Jacob, ' How old art thou ?' I should not say with that patriarch, ' Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage,' but many and happy have they been." Happy old man ! favored disciple ! Happy in a useful and honorable... | |
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