 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...accustomed place of study, I found a sermon just commenced upon the pensive remark of Job — " For we are of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow." These with one or two introductory sentences, were probably the last words he ever wrote. He was not,... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 68
...perfection ? " It is as high as heaven : what canst thou do ? Deeper than hell : what canst thou know ?" " For, we are but of yesterday, and know nothing : because our days upon earth are a shadow." — Job, c. xi., 7, 8. ; viii., 9. With respect to CALVINISM, I have always been more than pleased,... | |
 | Thomas William B. Aveling - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...xliv. 1.) Hence, in the book of Job, we are referred to the fathers for knowledge of the past. " For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of the fathers. For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon the earth are as... | |
 | William Linwood - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 116
...20th, 1841. SERMON I. TRADITION; OR, THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH. SERMON I. JOB VIII. 8, 9. ENQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, OF THE FORMER AGE, AND PREPARE THYSELF...FATHERS : FOR WE ARE BUT OF YESTERDAY AND KNOW NOTHING. THERE exists a numerous class of persons, whose manner it is vehemently to declare, that from the Bible,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 772
...as a reason, the comparative shortness of life ana consequent ignorance of the present generation : (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing Because our days upon earth are a shiidotc). But the " fathers of the former age," or grandfathers of the present, were the contemporaries... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 778
...previous to his existence upon earth, saying, forsooth, that the world was created for him, who is • but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow 't to angelic contemplation. Which would afford most pleasure, the primeval state of this earth, teeming... | |
 | Joseph Rathborne - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 194
...(he says) of the former ages; and prepare thyself for the search of their fathers : For we are bwt of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow." 12. I must now, sir, however, be permitted to express my sore and bitter disappointment, that a person... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 892
...as a reason, the comparative shortness of life and consequent ignorance of the present generation : (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing Because our days vpon earth are a shadow). But the " fathers of the former age," or grandfathers of the present, were... | |
 | George B. Scott - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...power divine — Help me to love Thee, better still ; And all the glory, Lord, be thine ! D ON TIME. ' For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow."— JOB VIII. 9. TIME flies, time flies ! and mark how short the road, To yon pure sphere of long unceasing... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...Swifter than a weaver's shuttle, Scc. Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. — Job vii. 1,2. 6 — 10. We are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. — Job viii. 9. ОHAP. XXXII. 393 Man that is born of a woman is but of few days, and full of trouble... | |
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For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers '(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow). 
