 | Sir James Stonhouse - 1818 - 300 sider
...should leave the world when God commands ; and we must all soon follow the deceased to the grave. " Your fathers, where are " they ? And the prophets, do they live for ever ?" Zech. i. .5. 8. You who are the attendants should do all in your respective stations diligently... | |
 | William Bengo'. Collyer - 1819 - 82 sider
...of all the gems of the East. Patriarchs, prophets, princes, statesmen — all have disappeared. 'Our fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?' St. Paul was affected by this review ; although he took into his calculation only a part of the great... | |
 | John Evans - 1819 - 444 sider
...before a large and attentive audience, many of whom knew and revered the deceased, from Zech. i. 5. The Fathers where are they, and the prophets, do they live for ever ? Thus the ordinary tokens of regard were not withheld on the melancholy occasion. His executors have... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 sider
...order, to place that in the front which is the chief object of the proposition we are laying down. Sometimes, however, when we intend to give weight...then bring it out full at the close : " Thus," says Mr. Pope, " on whatever side " we contemplate Homer, what principally strikes " us, is his wonderful... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 sider
...order, to place that in the front which is the chief dhject of the proposition we are laying down. Sometimes, however, when we intend to give weight...advantage to suspend the meaning for a little, and then hring it out full at the close : " Tims," says Pope, " on whatever side we contemplate Homer, what... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1820 - 874 sider
...They are subject, like every other earthly enjoyment, to the influence of changes and circumstances. "Your Fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, do they live for ever ?" Tne Lord, " who holdeth the stars in his right hand, and walketh in the midst of the golden candlesticks,"... | |
 | William Jay - 1821 - 294 sider
...and that underneath us are thine everlasting arms. Creatures die ; friends and relations die ; the fathers, where are they ? And the prophets, do they live for ever ? But the Lord liveth, and blessed be our rock, and let the God of our salvation be exalted. May we... | |
 | 1821 - 588 sider
...opening year should forcibly remind us, That we mmt soon all go the way whence we shall not return. Our fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever Î О no. They are on earth no more; and a moment is rapidly approaching, when we too must exchange... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 sider
...in general, the most plain and natural order, yet sometimes, when it is intended to give particular weight to a sentence, it is of advantage to suspend...little and then bring it out full at the close. Thus, Pope says, " On whatsoever side we contemplate Homer, what principally strikes us, is his wonderful... | |
 | Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 242 sider
...elders, the trained servants, the baptized, baptizing ministers, are gone and going off the stage: 'Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?' "RS" R. s. TO HIS DAUGHTER SARAH, (then attending S. Neale.) " Ballitore, 28th of 1st Month, 1792.... | |
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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 
