The Portrait of Old Age: Wherein is Contained a Sacred Anatomy Both of Soul and Body, and a Perfect Account of the Infirmities of Age Incident to Them Both. Being a Paraphrase Upon the Six Former Verses of the XIIth Chapter of Ecclesiastes. By John Smith, ... |
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... seem to have a tincture of that virulent poi- fon , which as easily and as quickly pro- ceeds out of knowledge , as the worm did out of Jonah's gourd , and will ( if not speedily prevented ) soon wither into nothing all that content ...
... seem to have a tincture of that virulent poi- fon , which as easily and as quickly pro- ceeds out of knowledge , as the worm did out of Jonah's gourd , and will ( if not speedily prevented ) soon wither into nothing all that content ...
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... seem more fair and flourishing . Herein old men may See their own natural faces , as in a glass ; and young men may foresee , what ( if they live ) will certainly betide them in their latter end . Systems and compleat treatises ( though ...
... seem more fair and flourishing . Herein old men may See their own natural faces , as in a glass ; and young men may foresee , what ( if they live ) will certainly betide them in their latter end . Systems and compleat treatises ( though ...
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... seems to be most proper ) he that is bowed down with age , so that he cannot but behold the ground whereon he now stands , and under which he must ere long be laid . And this answereth exactly to the Greek word , γέρων , παρὰ τὸ ἐις γῆν ...
... seems to be most proper ) he that is bowed down with age , so that he cannot but behold the ground whereon he now stands , and under which he must ere long be laid . And this answereth exactly to the Greek word , γέρων , παρὰ τὸ ἐις γῆν ...
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... seems to me to be otherwise , and that chiefly from these two reasons : 1. Because I find nothing in the allegory that is not competible to every particu- lar person that lives to the time of this state , both to the good and bad , both ...
... seems to me to be otherwise , and that chiefly from these two reasons : 1. Because I find nothing in the allegory that is not competible to every particu- lar person that lives to the time of this state , both to the good and bad , both ...
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... seems to be excluded from such a mercy as this , It is faid of a good companion , he will do a man good , and no harm all the days of her life : Prov . xxxi . 12. But contrariwise , it may be in- verted concerning this bad and morose ...
... seems to be excluded from such a mercy as this , It is faid of a good companion , he will do a man good , and no harm all the days of her life : Prov . xxxi . 12. But contrariwise , it may be in- verted concerning this bad and morose ...
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Page 79 - And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Page 116 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good ; let him seek peace and ensue it.
Page 160 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 135 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 13 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 144 - Even these of them ye may eat ; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Page 195 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 36 - And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me.
Page 223 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed.
Page 71 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...