 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 708 pages
...period of our own lives. Our existence this moment is no security for its continuance the next : " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." It is always a, matter of awful uncertainty when we enter on the business of the... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...save thee in all thy cities ? 15 My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he is flesh. 16 Boast not thyself of tomorrow : for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 17 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 756 pages
...the period of our own lives. Our existence this moment is no security for its continuance the next: "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." It is always a matter of awful uncertainty, when we enter on the business of the... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - 1833 - 156 pages
...life? it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." James iv. 13. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Prov. xxvii. 1. Our bodily constitution, and the circumstances in which we are placed,... | |
 | William Jay - 1834 - 330 pages
...the prosperity that once crowned his head. " And seekest thou great things to thyself? Seek them not. Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth. From the eagerness with which mankind pursue the distinctions of life, we would conclude,... | |
 | S. T. Sturtevant - 1834 - 662 pages
...itself is an elevation of the voice on the word just before the comma, as in the following quotation : " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." In this sentence it may be also observed that, the form of the words being imperative,... | |
 | Thomas Searle - 1834 - 284 pages
...breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish, Psalm cxlvi. 3, 4. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth, Prov. xxvii. 1. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; as the... | |
 | Charles Henry Wharton, George Washington Doane - 1834 - 444 pages
...duties, and will become injurious or profitable, according to the manner in which it is indulged. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."* And if this caution be necessary for a day, with how much greater force will it... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...years, nor by months ; but by days. And of these days, there is not one that we can call our own. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Our days here are spoken of as few ; and in fact they are much fewer than we are... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1835 - 608 pages
...the smallest thing. When the promise regards the future, it is wise to give only a conditional one. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." This would not prevent the common business of life. I should much more readily believe... | |
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Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 
