Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. Sermons: Volume the third - Page 235by Hugh Blair - 1790 - 434 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Norris - Beatitudes - 1707 - 512 pages
...Death, and thes other from the Succeffive Vanity of Human Life. But if a Man live many yearsf (fays he) and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the Days of Darknefs, for they jhall be many. t As much as to fay, 'tis not very likely,that a Man fhould live... | |
| Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...underflood this, that they would confider their latter End ; and not put far away the evil Day ! e If a Man live many Years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the Days of DarkBefs; for they (hall be many. All that cometh is Vanity. . f We are all the Children of Light,... | |
| William Clagett - 1720 - 554 pages
...no Man ever made more lively Defcriptions of the prefent Mifchiefs of it. Jf a Man live many Tears^ and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the Days of Darknefs, for they foall be many. And then he infers his wonted Conclufion j All that cometh is Vanity,... | |
| 1774 - 508 pages
...391 ) SERMON XXI. Motives to remember our Mortality, [From a Sermon of Dr. SCOTT'S ] ECCL. xi. 8. If a man live many years, and rejoice in 'them all; yet let him remember the days ofdarknefs, for they JJiall be many. I SHALL not trouble you with the various renderings of thefe words... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...fweet, and a plcafant thing it is for the eyes to behold the fun: 8 But if a man live many year«, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darknefs j for .they fhall be many. All that cometh is vanity. 9 fl Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth,... | |
| Job Orton - Old age - 1801 - 374 pages
...this fubjecl:, to' expert, and prepare for, the days of affliction. • " If a rnan,'r faith Solomon, "live many* years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darknefs, for they fhall be many." Endeavour to be deeply convinced of the great uncertainty of health... | |
| 1869
...10: " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness ; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ;... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...gogst. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many ; all that cometh is vanity. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...it is] for the eyes to behold the sun ; life and the -comforts of it are very 8 agreeable : But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness, adversity and torrow, especially death ; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity... | |
| William Jay - Free churches - 1805 - 486 pages
...gof. ** pel of peace ?" Who can fay, " my mountain ftands " fo ftrong, I mall never be moved ?" " If a man " live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let " him remember the days of darknefs, for they fhall " be many : all that cometh is vanity." How undefirable is a fqueamifh appetite,... | |
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