| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...point of securitv which we could gain, the mind would then have somi. basis on which to rest. 15. Bat our condition is such, that every thing wavers and...totters around us. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thon knowest not what a day may bring forth." It is much if, during its course, thou nearest not of... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 pages
...fixed point of security which we could gain, the mind would then have some basis on which to rest. 13 But our condition is such, that every thing wavers...totters around us. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; forthou knowest not whataday may bring forth." It is much if, dm-ijfejts course, thou hearest not... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...fixed point of security which we could gain, the mind would then have some basis on which to rest. I 3 But our condition is such, that every thing wavers...totters around us. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; forthou knowest not whataduy may bring forth." It is much if, during its course, thou he;trest not... | |
| William Kitchiner - Cab and omnibus service - 1827 - 326 pages
...and Death are always within a Moment's March of us, ready at—GOD'S— command to strike the blow. " Boast not thyself of to-Morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth;" therefore, so arrange all your Affairs, that when Sickness and Sorrow come, you may... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 262 pages
...fixed point of security which we could gain, the mind would then have some basis on which to rest. 13. But our condition is such, that every thing wavers...totters around us. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow j for thou knowest not What a day may bring forth." It is much if, during its course, thou nearest... | |
| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...expectation shall perish. — Prov. xi. 7. The righteous hath hope in his death.— Prov. xiv. 32. Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. — Prov. xxvii. 1. How dieth the wise man ? as the fool. — Eccles. ii. 16. A time... | |
| Thomas Carpenter (schoolmaster.) - 1828 - 332 pages
...Father, who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. Matt. vi. 6. Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.* Prov. xxvii. 1. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.f James... | |
| George Thomas Chapman - Sermons, American - 1828 - 424 pages
...the new testament were then unwritten. But still his answer was comprised in the well known proverb, "Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." And Croesus, though at the time he spurned the cautious wisdom and forecast of the... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...' To-morrow shall be as this day, and more abundantly,' we are obliged in return to say to them, ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.' I do not mean that, in the unknown prospect which lies before us, we should forebode... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...completely satisfactory ; still there remains to be considered the vanity of uncertain possession apd short duration. Were there in worldly things any fixed...what a day may bring forth." it is much if, during UK course, thou hearest not of somewhat to disquiet or alarm thee. For life never proceeds long in... | |
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