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... pleasure in them . While the fun , or the light , or the moon , or the ftars be not darkened , nor the clouds return after the rain . In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble , and the strong men shall bow themselves , and ...
... pleasure in them . While the fun , or the light , or the moon , or the ftars be not darkened , nor the clouds return after the rain . In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble , and the strong men shall bow themselves , and ...
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... pleasure in them . TH HIS chapter begins with an exhortation to the most neceffary duty of man , which is preffed upon him by a double inconvenience that will certainly come upon him , and for the future render him uncapable to perform ...
... pleasure in them . TH HIS chapter begins with an exhortation to the most neceffary duty of man , which is preffed upon him by a double inconvenience that will certainly come upon him , and for the future render him uncapable to perform ...
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... pleasure in it ; as there is no condition that frail mortality is capable of fo good , that hath not a participation ... pleasure in them . I take pleasure here also in the best sense , not for any finful content whatsoever , not ...
... pleasure in it ; as there is no condition that frail mortality is capable of fo good , that hath not a participation ... pleasure in them . I take pleasure here also in the best sense , not for any finful content whatsoever , not ...
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... pleasures and repafts both of body and mind , that the nature of man , while able , might com- fortably have ... Pleasure in old age , ( and to fuch perfons who were as good as dead , and with whom it had ceased to be after the ...
... pleasures and repafts both of body and mind , that the nature of man , while able , might com- fortably have ... Pleasure in old age , ( and to fuch perfons who were as good as dead , and with whom it had ceased to be after the ...
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... pleasure : He- braa vox non modo voluptatem , fed etiam negotium quodlibet opufve fignificat ; the original word , faith he , fignifieth work and bufinefs , as well as pleasure , Eccl . iii . 1. And fo indeed it doth , and may very well ...
... pleasure : He- braa vox non modo voluptatem , fed etiam negotium quodlibet opufve fignificat ; the original word , faith he , fignifieth work and bufinefs , as well as pleasure , Eccl . iii . 1. And fo indeed it doth , and may very well ...
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Page 87 - 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 122 - 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 168 - 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 143 - 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 152 - 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 203 - 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 44 - 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 231 - 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 79 - ... 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...