 work he spent very little time in speculating on what people at large either thought or said of him. For what to men of the Cullen type is this life ? " It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.  Disciples of Æsculapius v. 2 - Page 446by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Manning - Providence and government of God - 1799 - 204 pages
...and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." The other fact to which men are prone to be so strangely insensible, is their constant and entire dependence... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...light, lest darkness come upon you." There are no calls of mercy beyond the grave; and " what is your " life ? it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little " time, and then vanisheth away." The Jews had distinguished privileges ; but " the kingdom of God was "taken from them, and given to a nation... | |
 | Peter Lovett Fraser - Sermons, English - 1829 - 310 pages
...and buy and sell and get " gain: whereas ye know not what shall be " on the morrow. For what is your life ? " it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a " little time, and then vanisheth away"." The law of our nature speedily brings human life to its close : it is usual in Scripture, and in other... | |
 | Church of England - Primers (Prayer-books) - 1834 - 616 pages
...rcgardest him ? man is like a thing of nought, and his days passcth away like a shadow. The versicle. He is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. The repetition. Man is like, &c. The xxii. Psalm. Dominus regit me et nihil. THE Lord is my shepherd, I... | |
 | William Thistlethwaite - 1837 - 982 pages
...number of those of Isaac and Abraham and Terah, how many more must we now deduct ? " For what is our life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away." " The days of our age are threescore years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore... | |
 | Bernhard Jacobi - Bible - 1838 - 252 pages
...power. Weak mortal! thou knowest not on any day whether thou shall live the next. " For what is thy life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." The apostle, in this comparison, does not refer to the whole life of mun, or rather to its nobler part,... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...employed. But men may arrange and look forward, and at the same time fully bear in mind that their life is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. The great secret is, to keep God always before us : in every thing to study his good pleasure, and follow... | |
 | Ferdinando Tracy Travell - 1841 - 338 pages
...delay. Or, even were this otherwise, who can tell whether to morrow will ever come? For what is our life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. THE TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. Jfflorm'ng jfcerbtte. PROVERBS xi. The present chapter consists... | |
 | English history - 1846 - 140 pages
...and buy and sell, and get gain ; whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away" The poor butcher remained in his distressing and perilous situation for many long and weary hours : night... | |
 | Alexander Watson - 1846 - 442 pages
...of worldly pleasures to securing the raptures of futurity. " What is your life ?" asks St. James ; " it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." "The things," writes St. Paul, " which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal;"... | |
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