 | John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1818 - 934 pages
...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 and some...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 as well as our duty,... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...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, and 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... | |
 | John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
...from the beginmng is, ' thou shalt die the death.' As of the green /eaves on a thick tree, some fa/I, and some grow ; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born. Every work rotteth and consumeth away ; and the worker thereof shall go withal. Blessed is the man... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...сирлтс, HMEN Ti^tUTai «Tica íi умалеи. As OÍ the green leaves on a thick tree, some tall and some grow ; so is the generation of flesh and blood ; one Cometh to an end, and another is born. Eccl. \iv. 18. The supposition of a rare coincidence о thought is refuted by a servile adherence to... | |
 | Maxims - 1807 - 152 pages
...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, and some...blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born. 134. Every work rotteth and consumeth away, and the worker thereof shall go withal. 135. Blessed is... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 594 pages
...thought more elegantly expressed, Ecclesiastic, xiv. 18. As nftlegreen leaves on atbick tree, smnef all and some grow, so is the generation of flesh and blood. One come I h to an end, anil anniter ij born. The eloquent Isaiah c'-mparcs the life of man to a flower... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1822 - 722 pages
...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 and some...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 of... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1824 - 172 pages
...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 - Sermons, English - 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 thereof shall go withal. Blessed... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 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, and some...blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born. Ecclesiasticus. Day. Cal. 1. litrtK Tiberius Hemsterhuys, 1685, Groningen. It is not the oak, the ash,... | |
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As of 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. 
