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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... respect of honour , the groundwork of what is here discoursed upon far furpaffeth them all ; the author thereof being the wifeft , and the greatest earthly potentate throughout all generations . The portraiture that is bere drawn , is ...
... respect of honour , the groundwork of what is here discoursed upon far furpaffeth them all ; the author thereof being the wifeft , and the greatest earthly potentate throughout all generations . The portraiture that is bere drawn , is ...
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... respect of the inward and the outward man : All the secret and mysterious powers of the mind were as naked and open before him , as the visible parts of the body are before a vulgar anatomist , and bis ψυχο- λογία in this allegory ...
... respect of the inward and the outward man : All the secret and mysterious powers of the mind were as naked and open before him , as the visible parts of the body are before a vulgar anatomist , and bis ψυχο- λογία in this allegory ...
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... respect of the dispositions of mens bodies , of their course of lives , and also of the places and ages in which they live . The lives of the Patriarchs before the flood were extended to almost a thousand years , Gen. v . 27. and yet we ...
... respect of the dispositions of mens bodies , of their course of lives , and also of the places and ages in which they live . The lives of the Patriarchs before the flood were extended to almost a thousand years , Gen. v . 27. and yet we ...
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... respect of the objects ; and ad intra , in respect of the will . The first , are speculative , the last , are prac- tical . The first ( whereby the understanding is converfant about things as they have in their own nature a distinct ...
... respect of the objects ; and ad intra , in respect of the will . The first , are speculative , the last , are prac- tical . The first ( whereby the understanding is converfant about things as they have in their own nature a distinct ...
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... respect of the objects ; and ad intra , in respect of the will . The first , are speculative , the last , are prac- tical . The first ( whereby the understanding is converfant about things as they have in their own nature a distinct ...
... respect of the objects ; and ad intra , in respect of the will . The first , are speculative , the last , are prac- tical . The first ( whereby the understanding is converfant about things as they have in their own nature a distinct ...
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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...