 | Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 pages
...bless our dying breath ; Ob, Reader ! then iu Christ believe, Who every blessing else will give. IX. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 pages
...following lines : Like leaves on trees the race of men is found, Now green in eartli now withering <jn the ground, Another race the following spring supplies;...in their course decay, So flourish these when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. Religion seems to overthrow every thing that philosophy would support,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...beings. Like leaves on trees the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now wfth'ring on the ground 5 Another race the following spring supplies, They fall...course decay ; So flourish these, when those have past away30 THE AMERICAN [/,««<m 3, Time never returns. Mark how it snows ! how fast the valley fills,... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 358 pages
...inhaling these dangerous particles. The foliage of the ash tree changes to a lemon colour in October. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...fall, remind us of the following lines of Pope's Homer, of which Johnson used to be very fond • — Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found Now...in their course decay, So flourish these when those are passed away. Table of the Mean Equation of Time. M. s. October 1st, from the time by the Dial subt.... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1824 - 412 pages
...point of death: two rival brothers again advance their claims to the throne about to become vacant. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away •." The leaves of the returning spring, resemble those of other years; but not so... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 pages
...these walls supplied, Deserted by the muse when her sweet Shakspeare died. THE STATE OF MEN COMPARED. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with' ring on the ground ; Another race the coming spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Benjamin Maund - 1824 - 260 pages
...yearly leaves, that now with beauty crown'd, Smile on the sun ; now, wither on the ground." Again — "Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise." Our present fugitive-flowered little shrub is very ornamental, and bears ordinary winters without protection.... | |
 | 1038 pages
...the falling leaf rustling in the autumnal blast, which speaks to us affectingly of our mortality : " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground." Remember, then, to WHOM you belong, your Creator — "the Lord thy God." Is he thine? Are you not only... | |
 | 1826 - 738 pages
...each revolving age. Magilligan, Aug. 12. J. GRAHAM. AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN THE CODNTY OF LIMERICK. "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...withering on the ground; Another race the following race supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay ; Scrfiaurish... | |
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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those... 
