 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...Deborah dies, and his beloved wife Rachel dies, and Reuben denies Bilhah. It was no wonder he said, ' Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,' Gen. xlvii. 9. 2dly, There is a harmony of providences among them; selves. It is observed of the wheels,... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - Bible - 1813 - 448 pages
...the appearance of the venerable patriarch. "And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage!" — This was not only an answer to the king's question, but an epitome of his own life! About seventeen... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1813 - 280 pages
...which may God grant. Amen. SERMON XXII. THE HISTORY OF JACOB CONSIDERED. GENESIS XLVI. 9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage...an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the day of the years of my life been. — . THERE is not a man in history whom I pity more than the man... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...Pharaoh : and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou ? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years j few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the... | |
 | 1814 - 760 pages
...much closer examination. ' The testimony I mean, is that of the patriarch Jacob before Pharaoh : " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and I have not attained to those of my fathers :'' — a testimony full and express for the opinion we... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 706 pages
...Pharaoh : and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou ? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 1 1 And Joseph placed his father and... | |
 | Fanny Woodbury - Christian biography - 1815 - 298 pages
...difficulties, fears and troubles, I doubt not, but you can readily adopt the language of the patriarch, "Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Happy is it for the Christian, that he is not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1816 - 406 pages
...of trouble;" and that Jacob's answer to Pharaoh, when he desired to know the patriarch's age, was, " few and evil have " the days of the years of my life been ;" and your own experience will have convinced you, that both these declarations are true. Pains of body,... | |
 | John Hoyland - Bible - 1816 - 486 pages
...and, when he comes to make the estimate of his own life, near the close of it, what is the amount ? " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Indeed, whilst he was practising deceit upon his nearest relatives in Canaan, Providence was silently... | |
 | Fanny Woodbury, Joseph Emerson - 1816 - 300 pages
...difficulties, fears, and troubles, I doubt not, but you can readily adopt the language of the patriarch, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Happy is it for the Christian, that he is not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,... | |
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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their... 
