 | 1805 - 590 ページ
...Egypt. Himself most faithfully gave the history of his life in the following impressive description, Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage — but this for him was the right way to honor and peace in the closing scene of life, and that blessed... | |
 | 1819 - 550 ページ
...The answer 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...we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream; and we can only be said to have lived while we have been profitably employed.... | |
 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 ページ
...longevity of the antediluvian world. " Few and evil," says the patriarch, with pathetic simplicity, " few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 482 ページ
...The answer 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...we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream; and we can only be said truly to have lived while we have been profitably... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 454 ページ
...The answer 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...my pilgrimage." Whether we look back from fifty, or froni twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can only be said truly to have lived while... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 228 ページ
...The answer 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 ffrom fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can only be said truly... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 490 ページ
...The answer 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...we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can only be said truly to have lived, while we have been profitably... | |
 | John Macgowan - 1806 - 286 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Juvenal - 1806 - 578 ページ
...longevity of the antediluvian world. " Few and evil," says the Patriarch, with pathctick simplicity, " few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their... | |
 | 1808 - 530 ページ
...Pharao, The days of the years of my life which I am now sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. They have not reached to the days of the years of the 10 life of my fathers which they sojourned.... | |
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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 an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life... 
