 | 1831 - 652 pages
...melancholy psalm, in which the fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him, in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great a consternation... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 pages
...his hand, and meted oujf the heaven with a span, and taketh up the isles as a very little thing!" and in whose sight " a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night !" But inasmuch as a knowledge of the great Father of all is a matter... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1829 - 370 pages
...operations. He knows these are but parts of his ways ; and that a very little portion is heard by man of Him, in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. III. A third source of our misapprehension of God is to be found... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 530 pages
...melancholy psalm, in which the fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him, in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great a consternation... | |
 | George Holden - 1834 - 842 pages
...speedily as it does now, for our forefathers lived to a long duration ; but what is time in thy account, in whose sight " a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night," p. 4. ; Matt. xiv. 25. note. 5. them] The children of men, v. 3.... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Congregational churches - 1839 - 486 pages
...knows " these are but parts of his ways ; " and that a very " little portion is heard " by man of Him in whose sight " a thousand years are but as yesterday, when it is past, or as a watch in the night." A third source of our misapprehension of God is to be found in our... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...and melancholy psalm, in which the fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great consternation in... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1840 - 970 pages
...a few fleeting days, and who must quickly return to the dust ; look with awe and veneration to one, in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday, when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. Subject, during our short span of life, to perpetual change ;... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1845 - 472 pages
...prayer upon his lips for his country, and was buried a few days after in the parish church of Hampden. His gallant greencoats — one of the best regiments...followed him to the grave, singing the 90th Psalm. And when those .hardy soldiers had seen the dust heaped upon him who had been the friend of all of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...melancholy psalm, in which the fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him, at of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manne past, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great a consternation in... | |
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Him, in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 
