 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pagina’s
...large enough for the full growth of all your desires, I answer, Is it durable enough ? What will you do when " the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves" ? for even were this world as immortal as your own soul, consider upon what terms you live in it ;... | |
 | 1838 - 668 pagina’s
...called the body an house, he describes its timbers, its strong beams, its supporters; " in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men bow themselves.'* What an unspeakable blessing it must be for us who know Jesus, that the Holy Ghost... | |
 | John Donne - 1839 - 606 pagina’s
...part. But when every part at once is diseased, death does not besiege him, but inhabit him. In the day, when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the...cease, because they are few, and those that look out at the windows, be darkened ", when age of God's making, age grown by many years, or age of the devil's... | |
 | John Donne - 1839 - 604 pagina’s
...part. But when every part at once is diseased, death does not besiege him, but inhabit him. In the day, when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the...cease, because they are few, and those that look out at the windows, be darkened ", when age of God's making, age grown by many years, or age of the devil's... | |
 | Gotthold Salomon - 1839 - 264 pagina’s
...are dear to us, till the " DAY WHEN THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE SHALL TREMBLE, nat»». t Deuteronomy. AND THE STRONG MEN SHALL BOW THEMSELVES, AND THE GRINDERS...AND THOSE THAT LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOWS BE DARKENED "* No ; he who rejoices in the fulness of life, shall well reflect that our days are measured to a... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1839 - 266 pagina’s
...affecting description of old age, which I read to you yesterday, ' the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened :' what then do you think I can do, because the Bible now is my best comfort, which I shall need more... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1839 - 338 pagina’s
...? You may feel strong while you read these lines, but, alas ! a time is coming, with hasty strides, when " the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves." We are not half thankful enough for the blessing of health. We can give with alacrity a piece of gold... | |
 | Nathan Covington Brooks - 1840 - 56 pagina’s
...light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the...and those that look out of the windows be darkened. And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise... | |
 | S M. Heaton, George Heaton - 1840 - 236 pagina’s
...of night, the sick have a claim on our sympathy and assistance which we cannot resist. " In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves ;" when " all the daughters of music shall be brought low," " because man goeth to his long home, and... | |
 | Stephen Charnock - 1840 - 708 pagina’s
...man may live to see his strong arm withered, and a grasshopper to become a burthen, Eccles. xii. 5. " The strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few," verse 3. Nor rejoice in children; they are like birds upon a tree, that make a little chirping music,... | |
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I have no pleasure in them ; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain : in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders... 
