| Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - 1794 - 542 pages
...all the other evils incident to human nature.* But, we may say of both one and the other, that, " as the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall and some grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood ; one cometh to an end, and another is born. "t , * Between the human species, and certain other tribes... | |
| John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 pages
...All flesh taaxeth old as a garment, and the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shall die the death. As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall...some grow ; so is the generation of flesh and blood. One cometh to an end, and anothtr is born. If life is so transient and uncertain, is it not our interest... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 676 pages
...ancient Jewish writer*', which has its parallel amongst some of the finest of the heathen poetsf, that " as of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and others grow ; so of the generations of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born."... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 pages
...ancient Jewish writer*, which has its parallel amongst some of the finest of the heathen poetsf, that " as of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and others grow ; so of the generations of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born."... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...All flesh waxelh old as a garment: for the covenant from' the beginning is, Thou shalt die the death. As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall,...some grow ; so is the generation of flesh and blood, ore comethto an end, and another is born. Every work rotteth, and consumelh away, and the worker thereof... | |
| 1807 - 152 pages
...flesh waxeth old as a garment, for the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shalt die the death. 133. As, of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall,...some grow ; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born. 134. Every work rotteth and consumeth away, and the worker... | |
| 1822 - 722 pages
...rise." In the Apocryphal part of the Bible, the son of Sirach says, Ecclesiasticus, c. xiv. v. 18, " As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall...some grow, so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh tftli'"" end, and another is born." Had this writer, who lived in after the Babylonish captivity... | |
| Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1824 - 172 pages
...which said comparison of Homer's, G-rotins observes, is very similar to that in Ecclesiasticus xiv. 18. "As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow," &c.— and, to mention no more, Aristophanes has it(in Av. 687.) " <jn<\\iav ivti iroffoioioe," Arc.... | |
| Thomas Secker - 1825 - 486 pages
...thus appear to be wise) behaviour. As of the green leaves on a thick tree, saith the son of Sirach, some fall and some grow, so is the generation of flesh and blood : one cometh to an end, and anolher is born. Every worJc rottcth and consumeth away, and the worker... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. Shakspeare. As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall,...some grow ; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born. Ecclesiasticus. Day. Cal. 1. litrtK Tiberius Hemsterhuys,... | |
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