 | Catherine Mary M'Nab - 1850 - 136 pages
...and desire shall fail ; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern : then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave... | |
 | Richard William Dickinson - 1850 - 322 pages
...burden, And desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, And the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, Or the golden bowl...the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, And the spirit shall return to God who gave it."... | |
 | 1850 - 538 pages
..."when the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail;" when "man goeth to his long home;" "or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern; then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."... | |
 | 1849 - 788 pages
...And desire shall fail ; because man goeth to his long home, And the mourners go about the streets : 5 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, Or the golden bowl...the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the cistern. ' Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; And the spirit shall return unto God who gave... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1851 - 646 pages
...beautiful description of the decay and death of the human body, in the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes : " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." In the east, the chain is almost uniformly made of cord or rope ; and the former part of the passage... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1851 - 562 pages
...spoke in a very low but clear voice— every thrilling word being heard by every one around her — " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cietem, — Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God... | |
 | Henry James - 2000 - 478 pages
...per Dio! (Italian) for God's sake! 44 (p. 69) 'The Golden Bowl is broken' Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 : '^ r ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.'... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pages
...burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - 2001 - 394 pages
...broken; or the pot be broken at the well, and the wheel broken upon the cistern." This was perfected to: "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." In their rendering of the first two verses of Psalm 17, they avoided a metaphorical temptation in favor... | |
 | Burton M. Wheeler - 2001 - 171 pages
...burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.... | |
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... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it. 
