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" Look at the deceased, and contemplate present things. His days a hand-breadth : his beauty, consumed like the moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as the grass: which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening... "
A friendly visit to the house of mourning [by R. Cecil]. - Page 18
by Richard Cecil - 1791
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A Friendly Visit to the House of Mourning ...

Richard Cecil - Consolation - 1803 - 88 pages
...'and contemplate prefent things. His days an hand-breath i his beauty confumed like the motb-fretten garment ; his cares and pleafures a dream ; his attainments...withereth ; his years a tale ; his ftrength, labour and forroia. So foon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with the Pfalmift,Fm'/y...
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The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 2

Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as the grass; which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with...
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The Mourner's Companion: With an Introductory Essay

Consolation - 1825 - 434 pages
...moth-fretten garment; his cares 173 and pleasures, a dream ; his attainments, as the grass, which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth ; his years, a tale ; his strength, labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with...
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The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 2

Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream : his attainments, as the grass j which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and Jled, that we cannot help repeating with...
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Maternal solicitude for a daughter's best interests

Ann Taylor - Children - 1830 - 196 pages
...that is told, to a dream, to a vision of the night; and man, frail man, to a flower, that cometh forth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth ? — Are they not few, when that his ' afflictions endure but for a moment,' is said, to encourage...
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A Token for Mourners, Or The Advice of Christ to a Distressed Mother ...

John Flavel - 1841 - 232 pages
...moth-fretten garment ; his cares and pleasures, a dream ; his attainments, as the grass, which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth ; his years, a tale ; his strength, labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with...
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The Church of Scotland pulpit

Scotland Church of - 1845 - 768 pages
...of human life, and to remind us of its vanity. Man is " like grass which groweth up, and flourisheth in the morning, and, in the evening, is cut down and withereth." This image is used both in the Old and New Testament Scriptures, and there is none better calculated...
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The Works ...

Richard Cecil - 1847 - 336 pages
...moth-fretten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as the grass: which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with...
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Remains and Miscellanies: To which is Prefixed, A View of His Character by ...

Richard Cecil - 1850 - 492 pages
...moth-fret ten garment : his cares and pleasures, a dream: his attainments, as ihe grass: which flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth : his years, a tale : his strength labour and sorrow. So soon is the whole cut off and fled, that we cannot help repeating with...
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The Worcester Pulpit: With Notices Historical and Bibliographical

Elam Smalley - Church buildings - 1851 - 600 pages
...vapor, which appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away. We are like grass which groweth up in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withereth. Were a warning voice from the other world, to come to any one of us, saying, Set thine house in order,...
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