 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Families - 1839 - 672 pages
...And again, when standing at the grave's mouth, we have before our eyes a plain proof, that " man who is born of a woman hath but a short time to live," in this world; we earnestly beseech the Father of Spirits, " that it would please him of his gracious... | |
 | William Marshall - Anthems - 1840 - 284 pages
...can carry nothing out. The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the LORD. Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth... | |
 | Fitch Waterman Taylor - Columbia (Frigate) - 1840 - 396 pages
...the services, as all, uncovered and with the silence of the dead, listened to the affecting ritual: " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth... | |
 | Alfred Clarkson - 1840 - 226 pages
...Think of departed children; think of departed teachers; and say whether he was in the wrong who wrote, "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery : he cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth... | |
 | General society for promoting district visiting - 1840 - 398 pages
...solitude, on the brink of that waiting grave, it poured forth its consolation.—" Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery: he cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower: he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth... | |
 | Church of England - Reformation - 1841 - 490 pages
...made ready to be laid into the earth, the Priest shall say, "or else the Priest and Clerks shall sing, MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower ; he flieth as iti were a shadow, and never continueth... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - Fiction - 2000 - 756 pages
...C, D) and - ah (B) his voice, and with a thump that came near knocking' the pulpit about our ears;12 "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live; he cometh up and is cut down like a flower!"13 I started to the extremity of the pew, and perceived... | |
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 644 pages
...and Dying. He was given ecclesiastical burial, and those present heard intoned: "Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down, like a flower."'4 He was twenty-six. 1 . Harold Bloom, ed., John... | |
 | George Orwell - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 602 pages
...centuries, of course, a pessimistic view of life was taken more or less for granted. "Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery", says the Prayer Book, with the air of stating something obvious. But it is a different matter... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2001 - 394 pages
...which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her. JOB 14:1-2 Coverdale Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of diverse miseries. He cometh up and falleth away like a flower. . . . Geneva Bible 1 . Man that is born... | |
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MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. 
