 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 680 pages
...that when he was a very old man, and much older than the most that lived after him, he complained, "Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life:" in which complaint the few is explained by the evil; his days were winter-days, and spent in... | |
 | Julia Maria Huyshe - 1855 - 170 pages
...died, " pierced through with many sorrows." Jacob's life was such that when he was dying, he said " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." When he left his father's house he got to his uncle Laban, and loved one of his daughters... | |
 | 1855 - 662 pages
...dim declining age." You will remember the answer of Jacob, when he stood before the Kins of Egypt, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." This is the experience of all. Morning is a time of comparative gladness and of hope.... | |
 | John Johnston - 1856 - 258 pages
...surprised and rejoiced to hear him say in answer to my question, ' How he was,' ' I am an old sinner, few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage.' He was greatly distressed, and after prayer he returned home ; about four months afterwards... | |
 | William Jay - 1857 - 530 pages
...reasons. First, Because a state of suffering is the character of this life. 11 run.: old Jacob said, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage." Job said, " Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards." And Solomon exclaimed,... | |
 | Adam Storey Farrar - 1859 - 350 pages
...that, as the evening of life closes around us, and we are ready to lament with the ancient patriarch, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life," we shall, in the recollection of a life well spent, catch a prospect in the future, a bright... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...time, wherein thou was pleased to sojourn upon earth ; yet I may well say, with thy holy patriarch. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage — few in number, evil in condition. 'either yet hare they been so few as evil. O Lord,... | |
 | Adam Storey Farrar - 1860 - 254 pages
...that, as the evening of life closes around us, and we are ready to lament with the ancient patriarch, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life," we shall, in the recollection of a life well spent, catch a prospect in the future, a bright... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - 1860 - 436 pages
...long-suffering patience of our God towards us.*' "Feb. 29th. — Yesterday I completed my sixty-second year. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage. To Jacob's words I can add this testimony, — goodness and mercy have followed me all... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1861 - 352 pages
...Matilda Meeking had been of a murmuring disposition, she might have summed up her history in the words, " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life," for certainly her lot had been one of great trial She was the youngest sister and only daughter... | |
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How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life... 
