| 1821 - 712 páginas
...the Danes in King Etheldred's time ; with which the Queen was so well pleased, that she gave them a brace of bucks, and five marks in money, to bear the charges of a feast. " Besides all this, he had upon the pool a Triton, riding on a Mermaid eighteen feet long; as also... | |
| New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 466 páginas
...of the Danes in the reign of king Ethelred ; which pleafed the queen fo much, that fhe gave them a brace of bucks, and five marks in money, to bear the charges of a a feaft. There were, befides, on the pool, a triton riding on a mermaid eighteen feet long, as alfo... | |
| Francis Grose - 1784 - 422 páginas
...destruction of the Danes in K. Ethelred's time ; with which the queen was so pleased, that she gave them a brace of bucks, and five marks in money, to bear the charges of a feast." As among these spectacles one occurs, called running at the quintin, neither much known in England,... | |
| Sketches - 1799 - 204 páginas
...mentioning, in conversation, about six months before his death, the words of the psalmist — " The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow," he added with a smile, " But I have not found them either labour or sorrow." Much of this freshness... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 páginas
...reduction afterwards, when Israel sinned and perished in the wilderness. Then it was said, The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we, fly araay. Though a strong constitution and the proper government... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 páginas
...Ver. 14. All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. 1's. xc. 0. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away. Keel. iii. 2. A time to be born and a time to die. Matt. vi.... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 páginas
...to see a hundred and twenty years, hath set man's ordinary period at half his own term : The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and, if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; Ps. xc. 10. Lo, fourscore years alone are load enough for the strength, much more for the weakness,... | |
| Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 páginas
...the mansions of the blessed ! Amen. The Brevity of Human Life. SERMON XXXV. PSAL. Xc. 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten : and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and, sorrow ; for it is so$n cut off, and we fly away.. . JLT has been maintained by some that the exact period... | |
| William Romaine - 1809 - 212 páginas
...age. LT is appointed unto all men once to die. The time is fixed by an immutable decree. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow : for it is cut soon off, and we flee away. If some be permitted to live longer, yet the infirmities... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 páginas
...then, according to David's account, it is but a poor life at best that the law promises; " the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and, if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." And labour and sorrow are of so little value to a soul that desires to be with Christ, that it is hardly... | |
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