...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...

...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,...

...born unto trouble, as the * Gen. i. 31. t Gen. ii. 17, 19. t Job, v. 7. sparks fly upward." — * He hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery...were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay." This fallen world is now " filled with lamentation and mourning and woe," the dismal offspring of sin....

...remains of some loved friend, while the minister of religion . pronounced Q those affecting words, " Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time...it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay ; " who among you, I ask, has then failed to make a secret acknowledgment to himself, that the shortness...

...trembling with emotion, and yet so deep and solemn, that every word touched the hearer's heart, said, ' Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery'—Full of misery] O what true words! At that moment there was a sudden movement amongst the...