 | William Huntington - 1804 - 606 pages
...fervant defart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have Jeen tbyfalvatioa^ Luke ii. 29, 30. O that my .words were now written ! Oh that they were, printed in a hook; that they wet e graven with an iion pen and laid in the rock for ever ! Fur 1 know that my Redeemer... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pages
...were now written ! oh that they were printed in 2-1 a book ! inscribed m some durable substance :* That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! alluding 25 to the custom of putting inscriptions on z'on's or roc/fit. For I know [that]... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pages
...linen and wax. The former of these customs we trace in Job's wish, 0 that my words were now written ! O that they were printed in a book ! that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! There is a way of writing in the East, which is designed to fix words on the memory, but... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1807 - 520 pages
...required, demands for it attention of mankind, when he exclaims, " Oh that my words were now written, that " they were printed in a book, that they " were graven with an iron pen and lead " in the rock for ever. For I know that my " Redeemer livethj and that he shall stand " at the latter day upon the... | |
 | 1808 - 598 pages
...sufficient to engage Job to use this expression, O that my words were written ? that they were recorded in a book ! that they were graven with an iron pen, and' incrustated with some durable 'plaster, after the manner of the Egyptians, whose memorials are supposed... | |
 | 1809 - 556 pages
...often made might remain upon record, and be registered in the public acts and monuments ! Ver. 24. That they "were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever !] May they be graven upon a plate of lead with an- iron pen ; nay, cut into a rock or marble... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - 1810 - 28 pages
...yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. •Он that my words were now written ! Oh that they were...were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever ! For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day on the earth... | |
 | Isaiah Thomas - 1810 - 508 pages
...printing, engraving and book. making were known in those days; for he says, Oh that my words tvere now written ! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen [the stylumj and iead^ in the rock for ever! The Greeks had many authors before the time of Homer,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pages
...reprobate, the pious and faithful patriarch Job, in the midst of his trials and distresses exclaimed, " Oh, that my words were now written ! Oh, that they were printed in a book !"* From which it is apparent, that the name, always applied to one of the mechanical modes of book-making,... | |
 | William Drummond, Robert Walpole - 1810 - 236 pages
...version is inaccurate. The Hebrew is better rendered in our English translation : That they (my words) were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever ! The meaning is, that Job wished his words to be inscribed with an iron instrument in the rock, and... | |
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For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God... 
