...are the generations of men. "f How sublime and affecting is that reflection in the book of Job — "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery; he cometh up like a flower, and is cut down :" J in the same figurative language doth the Psalmist speak of the...

...Iv iavTif ffptt, which reminds one of the yet more tersely expressed saying of our burial service, " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery ;" which seems formed from Genes. 47, 9. Job 5, 7. See also Eccles. 8, 7. Goeller thinks that the whole...

...they come to tlie grave, whi the Corpse is made ready to be laid in the earth, shall lie sun- or said, MAN, that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery, lie comet up, and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow, an never continueth in one...

...madereiulij to be Itild into the earth, (lie Priett shall say. Or thtrrtettaxd Clerk* shall tbig : MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and la full of misery. He cometh up, and ii cut down, like a flower; he flecth as it were a shadow, and...

...be wicked ! It is strange that man, who suffers so severely from the violence of the elements, " who hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery," should go so far out of his way to multiply uneasy sensations, and should so often dash aside the enjoyment...

...Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, And stand upon the threshold of the new. WiLLEE. " MAN that is born of a woman, hath but a short time...were, a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. ' " Every thing changeth in nature—every thing alters — every thing perishes; the body of man is...

...intended to be conveyed, enables him more fully to comprehend the latter. Thus, in the sentence, " He cometh up and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth...it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay ; " by pointing, on the tablet of the reader's memory, to the idea of a flower, which he has seen growing...

...assistance of any image besides : as when we say, " David the son of Jesse reigned over Israel ; " or, " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." Figurative language is that which, by referring to some.image or idea with which the mind of the reader...

...his life ; and thought upon those passages of Holy Writ, which remind us so eloquently that " man who is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and never continueth in one stay ;" it seemed to me that none would express the reflections, which occurred...

...grrroc, <ohile the Corpse is mads retidy to be laid into tía earthy thatl be tung or joui, I/TAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, ind is full of misery. He cometh jp, and is cut down like a flower ; ie fleeth as it were a shadow,...