...Egypt. Himself most faithfully gave the history of his life in the following impressive description, Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage — but this for him was the right way to honor and peace in the closing scene of life, and that blessed...

...longevity of the antediluvian world. " Few and evil," says the patriarch, with pathetic simplicity, " few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their...

...indeed is leaving us at a rapid rate, as do all the seasons, and though I have marked their flight so often, I know not which is the swiftest. Man is never...my pilgrimage." Whether we look back from fifty, or froni twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can only be said truly to have lived while...

...The anfwer of the old Patriarch to Pharaoh may be adopted by every man at the clofe of the longeft life. " Few and evil have been the days of the years...we look back from fifty, or from twice fifty, the paft appears equally a dream ; and we can only be faid truly to have lived while we have been profitably...

...indeed, is leaving us at a rapid rate, as do all the seasons ; and though 1 have marked their flight so often, I know not which is the swiftest. Man is never...the years of my pilgrimage." Whether we look back ffrom fifty, or from twice fifty, the past appears equally a dream ; and we can only be said truly...

...remember not that my eyes were ever struck with such a venerable form." The patriarch replied, " But few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage ; I am now in the hundred and thirtieth year of my age ; but the many sorrows interwoven in my lot,...

...longevity of the antediluvian world. " Few and evil," says the Patriarch, with pathctick simplicity, " few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their...

...Pharao, The days of the years of my life which I am now sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. They have not reached to the days of the years of the 10 life of my fathers which they sojourned....

...we entered the apartment, I heard a person, with a mournful tone of »oice, thus express himself: " Few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage, a few days, and full of sorrow." What is the meaning of this ? said 1; this is a strange kind of saying....

...remember not that my eyes were ever struck with such a venerable form." The patriarch replied, " But few and evil have been the days of the years of my pilgrimage: I am now in the hundred and thirtieth year of my age; but the many sorrows interwoven in my lot, the...