| Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 636 pagina’s
...and melt away. Surely, every man is vanity. Ver. 12. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry ; hold not Thy peace at my tears : for I am a stranger...with Thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.] What is this life we cleave so fast to, and are so uneasy to hear of parting with, what is it but a... | |
| Thomas Rennell - 1825 - 476 pagina’s
...is " a stranger only and a sojourner upon earth, as all his fathers were." The entreaty is this, " O spare me a little that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen." May God in his mercy grant that it may be the case of every one of us ! But many of us, however earnestly... | |
| John Hewlett - 1825 - 516 pagina’s
...disposed to join, with fervent devotion, in the earnest prayer of the Psalmist, to our Heavenly Father, " O, spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen !" We are farther urged to this steady course in our moral and religious duties by the consideration,... | |
| William Paley - 1825 - 436 pagina’s
...away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but vanity. 21. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling; hold not thy peace at my tears. 22. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 23. O spare me a little,... | |
| Richard Hele - 1825 - 598 pagina’s
...Ixv. 3. " Psal. xli. 4. c Psal. xliv. 16.. d Psal. xxxi. 12. • Psal. xxxviii. 4. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with Thine ears consider my calling : hold not Thy peace at my tears c. O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen d. Shew... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 572 pagina’s
...fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage, xlvii. 9. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry ; hold not thy peace at my tears : for I am a stranger with thee, and a eojourner, as all my fathers were, Psal. zxni. 12. VER. 11. О! yàp тиайта Xtyom;, i/ 1 For... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 572 pagina’s
...Shakspeare never fails to introduce on occasions similar to the present. So in the 39th Psalm : — ' O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence and be no more seen.' The same thought is expressed by Perdita in The Winter's Tale : — Embrace him, dear Thaisa : this... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - 1826 - 628 pagina’s
...are for ever blasted with the next violent temptation. More prudent was the prayer of David ; " Oh spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence and be no more seen." And something like it was the saying of the emperor Charles the fifth ; "Inter vitae negotia et mortis... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1826 - 632 pagina’s
...are for ever blasted with the next violent temptation. More prudent was the prayer of David ; " Oh spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence and be no more seen." And something like it was the saying of the emperor Charles the fifth ; "Inter vitae negotia et mortis... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 732 pagina’s
...away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment : every man therefore is but vanity. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling :...not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thce, and a sojourner : as my fathers were. O spare me a little : that I may recover my strength, before... | |
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