| William Cobbett - 1801 - 450 páginas
...the words of Holy Writ!—" I have " seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a " green bay-tree. Yet he passed away ! and, lo! he was...not: " yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." * Rush despises a knowledge of the learned languages for much about the same reason that an ugly old... | |
| William Jones - 1801 - 354 páginas
...great prosperity, and flourishing like a green bay-tree. But then it follows, yet he passed atvay, and lo, he was- not; yea I sought him, but he could not be found. His life, though splendid and promising for a time, was short and transient. He seemed to himself to... | |
| William Cobbett - 1801 - 594 páginas
...progress and the lamentable catastrophe of Brown, without thinking on the words of Holy Writ ! — " I have " seen the .wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a ".green bay-tree. Yet he passed away ! and, lo! he was not: '.' yea, I sought him, but he could not... | |
| Charles Rollin - 1803 - 472 páginas
...proud head to the . skies. [7] I have seen the nicked in great power ; and spreading himself like a green bay-tree :. yet he passed away, and lo, he was...not : yea I sought him, but he could not be found. He is so completely annihilated, that the very place where he stood was destroyed. M. Racine has translated... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 páginas
...often observed, I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 3.6 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found ; / have seen families -which jlourulitd by iniquity gone at once, one scarce knows how, as Saul, Mithofihel^... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 páginas
...shal: see his firovidençe appearing for their destruction. 35 This, says David, I have oflen observed, I have seen the wicked: in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not : yea, I sought hinîî but he could... | |
| James Fisher - 1806 - 352 páginas
...Psalmist, which I noticed a little before, when I saw this tree growing in full verdure in this place ; " I " have seen the wicked in great power, and " spreading himself like a green bay tree ; " yet he passed away, and lo, he was not ; " yea, I sought him, but he could not... | |
| 1808 - 512 páginas
...fleshly table of the heart, "I have 'seen the wicked in ; great power, and spreading hims«l£ like a green bay-tree. Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not ; yea, I suuglit him, but he could not be found." But what a sensibility is prod need by the loss of an individual... | |
| 1809 - 556 páginas
...and sucked abundance of the earth, and spreads juit-e out of its branches every way.. Ver. 36. Ytt he passed away, and lo, he was not: yea', I sought him, but ke could not be found.] And yet, as firm as he seemed to stand, he was gone on a sudden ; he vanished,... | |
| William Wake - 1810 - 418 páginas
...left upon it ; but the transgressors shall perish from off the face of it."J And again he saith, " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like the cedars of Libanus. I passed by, and lo he was not ; I sought his place, but it could not be found.... | |
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