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The Meditations of a Recluse: Chiefly on Religious Subjects - Page 44
by John Brewster - 1802
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A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians, Volume 1

John Gardner Wilkinson - Egipto - 1854 - 448 pages
...grave. For we are born at all adventure, and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been, .... come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present, .... let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments ; and let no flower of the spring pass by...
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Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the ..., Volume 1

Albert Barnes - Bible - 1854 - 554 pages
...been, for the breath in our nostrils as as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart ; — Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present ; let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, and let no flower of the spring pass by us...
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Nine considerations on eternity, from the Lat. by father Robert

Hieremias Drexelius - 1856 - 354 pages
...trumpets may be compared these two words: Now and Always. The Law of the world is this : " Come and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth. Let * Dan. xii. 2. t Kumb. x. 2. 4. us fill ourselves with costly wines and ointments...
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Sermons, preached, for the most part, in the village church of Allestree

John Hullett - 1859 - 528 pages
...Our name shall be forgotten in time. Our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud. And after our end there is no returning ; for it is fast sealed,...therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present." Then would God interfere for the conviction of gainsayers, for the honour of His servant, and by removing...
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The Words of the Lord Jesus, Volume 9

Rudolf Stier - Bible - 1859 - 512 pages
...the sun. For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning. Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present ; and let us earnestly use the creatures, while we are young" (Wisd. of Sol. ii. 4-6). But St James uses scriptural...
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Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the ..., Volume 1

Albert Barnes - Bible - 1860 - 548 pages
...been, for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart ; — Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present ; let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, and let no flower of the spring pass by us...
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The Works of Isaac Barrow, Volume 1

Isaac Barrow, James Hamilton - Clergy - 1861 - 670 pages
...have returned from the grave: — Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present; let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth ; let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointment!; and let no flower of the spring pass by us; let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 3

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1862 - 526 pages
...the sofi air. * Come let us enjoy the pleasures that are present, let us cheerfully use the creatures as in youth, let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, let not the flower of our life pass by us, let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before they are withered,"...
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Protestantism & Infidelity: An Appeal to Candid Americans ....

Francis Xavier Weninger - 1863 - 372 pages
...wicked. " Our time is as the passing of a shadow. Come therefore, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, and let not the flower of the time pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered :...
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The spiritual exercises of st. Ignatius, with meditations and prayers by L ...

Ignatius de Loyola (st.), Liborio Siniscalchi - Spiritual exercises - 1864 - 496 pages
...banquets, and gives fall vent to the most unrestrained passions, so that hereafter they can say : " Let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth."— (Wisdom xx.) This, howeverj is for the very short time of life, and no more : thus,...
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