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" The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. "
Herodotus, tr., with notes, by W. Beloe - Page 65
by Herodotus - 1812
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Animal Biography, Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners ..., Volume 1

William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...find that seventy or eighty years was the extent of Man's life. " The days of our age/' says David, "are threescore years and ten ; and though Men be...sorrow, so soon passeth it away and we are gone."* These exact adaptions to circunv stances and situation can be accounted for in no other manner but...
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and Other ...

Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten...sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 1 1 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath ? for even thereafter as a man feareth, BO is thy displeasure....
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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacrements...

Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...thou art angiy, all our days are gone ; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten...sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure....
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Sermons on the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity

Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1810 - 242 pages
...to be old, yet it must be acknowledged that many sorrows almost always attend that part of life. " The days of our age are threescore years and ten,...fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow."t These are the evil days of which Solomon speaks, and the years in which we have no pleasure....
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The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, Volume 10

John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 454 pages
...so strong, (perhaps one in a hundred,) that they come to fourscore years, yet then is their strength but labour and sorrow: so soon passeth it away, and we are gone !" 2. Now what a poor pittance of duration is this, compared to the life of Methuselah ? " And Methuselah...
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Herodotus, Volume 1

Herodotus - Greece - 1814 - 422 pages
...stations. The rich man, who knows not happiness, surpasses but in two thy observation, that Stobaeus, who has given this discourse of Solon, omits altogether...sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone." « His end of life be fortunate.] — This sentence of Solon is paraphrased by Sophocles, in his (Edipus...
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The Book of Common Prayer: And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other ...

Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...thou art angry all our days are gone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten...sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 1 1 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath : for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure....
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and Other ...

Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...thou art angry, all our days are gone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten...sorrow -, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 1 1 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath : for even thereafter as (b) a man feareth, so is thy...
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The Sunday service of the Methodists late in connexion with the rev. John ...

Wesleyan Methodists services - 1817 - 278 pages
...thou art angry, all our days are gone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten : and though men be sa strong, that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow : so...
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The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are ..., Volume 2

George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 606 pages
...though men be so strong," that sometimes, and that but very seldom indeed, comparatively speaking, " they come to fourscore years, yet " is their strength...sorrow ; so " soon passeth it away, and we are gone." And what use does the Psalmist make of this consideration? It follows in the next verse but one ; "...
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