| Ramananda Chatterjee - 1911 - 778 páginas
...apostles. Thinking of these things, we see what he meant who said, " A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is passed and as a watch in the night. The East in the last three thousand years has produced the master minds in the moral and religious... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 842 páginas
...the fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him to whom a thousand years are as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great a consternation in his party, according to Clarendon,... | |
| 1913 - 882 páginas
...the fragility of human life ie contrasted with the immutability of Him to who ma thousand years are as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night/' So wrote Lord Macaulay. The next historical subject Calderón painted represents an event which occurred... | |
| Francis Vinton Greene - 1915 - 120 páginas
...only on the scale used by the Psalmist when he said that "a thousand years in the sight of the Lord are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night." We hear much of "progress" in these days; but the human body has not improved in size nor in form since... | |
| Reuben Archer Torrey - 1918 - 336 páginas
...the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. (4) For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night." We have the same representation of God in the 102nd Ps., verses 24-27: "I said, O my God, take me not... | |
| William Arch McKeever - 1919 - 262 páginas
...intended to imply a disbelief in the accepted theory of evolution. But "a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night." The processes of evolution are so slow that for practical matters of education and self-direction any... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 542 páginas
...the fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him to whom a thousand years are as yesterday • when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great a consternation in his party, according to Clarendon,... | |
| First Worshipful Masters' Association in Massachusetts - 1922 - 98 páginas
...go back two hundred million, aye, a billion years if he chooses. "For a thousand years in its sight are but as yesterday, when it is passed, and as a watch in the night." But some may say, "Will its history never be fully written ?" and we answer, "Not for fifty or an hundred... | |
| Samuel Michael Haughton - 1884 - 296 páginas
...His praise, it is accomplished here. It has stood for centuries, but a thousand years in God's sight are " but as yesterday when it is passed and as a watch in the night." May we so pass through things temporal that finally we lose not things eternal ! So lived one whose... | |
| Elmer Anderson Carter - 1969 - 404 páginas
...that in the unspeakably long duration of mankind two thousand years are, in the words of the Psalmist, "but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night." Second, that Julius Caesar might have said of the ancient Britons, or Tacitus of the ancient Germans,... | |
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