...to be old, yet it must be acknowledged that many sorrows almost always attend that part of life. " The days of our age are threescore years and ten ;...fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour awd sorrow."* These are the evil days, of which Solomon speaks, and the years in which we have no pleasure....

...indignation. Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we...our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Turn thee again at last,...

...For even the breath of what I mean to speak Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub, 13 ' For when thou art angry, all our days are gone, we...years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.' Psalm xc. Thus also in Macheth :— ' Life's but a walking shadow,— it is a tale Told by an idiot,...

...For even the breath of what I mean to speak Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little, rub, 13 ' For when thou art angry, all our days are gone, we...years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.' Psalm xc. Thus also in Macbeth : — ' Life's but a walking shadow, — it is a tale Told by an idiot,...

...mean to speak Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub, 13 ' for when thou art angry, all onr days are gone, we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.' Psalm xc. Thus also in Macbeth : — * Life's but a walking shadow, — it is a tale Told by an idiot,...

...and our secret-sins' in the light of thy countenance. 9. For when Thou art a"ngry,, all our days 13 are gone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10. The days of our age' are three-score years and ten; and though men be so strong, 14 that they come...

...in the light of thy cduirtenance. • '-$.' For when TJiou art af'ngry,, §11 our days ^•. jjone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. of bur age' are threescore and ten; and though men be so strong, that they come to four-score years,,...

...so strong, (perhaps one in a hundred,) that they come to fourscore years, yet then is their strength but labour and sorrow : so soon passeth it away, and we are gone !" 2. Now what a poor pittance of duration is this, compared to the life of Methuselah 1 " And Methuselah...

...shall gaze upon, and these eyes shall behold him, and not as an alien. HUMAN life in its best estate is but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone ; and such is the opinion and experience of the best and wisest men, in all ages, and in all countries....

...is born to sorrow and trouble ; he journeys through the world as a weary traveller, and brings his years to an end as it were a tale that is told. But are there no seasons of refreshment ? no circumstances of a cheering nature to light up the gloom...