| Robert Walker - 1799 - 408 pages
...formed man' of the duft of " the ground." None of us can claim an higher extraction. We may all fay to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter. And as the body is an earthly houfe with refpect to its original, fo it is conftantly fupported... | |
| Friedrich Christian Lesser - 1799 - 468 pages
...place, " The grave is mine houfe.; 1 have made " my bed in the darknefs. I have faid to corrup.** tion .thou art my father, and to the worm, thou *' art my mother and my filler." CH. xvii. 13. 14. The fame lot' awaits us all. " One dieth in his full *' ftrength, being... | |
| Mary Anne Burges - 1800 - 216 pages
...thofe, who, difclaiming the glorious inheri" tance of the children of GOD, have rather " chofen to fay to corruption, ' Thou art my " father;' and to the worm, ' Thou art my " mother, and iny lifter ;' vainly trufting in " their reprobate minds that they fhould efcape " the wrath to come."... | |
| Samuel Carr - 1801 - 366 pages
...thou not made gold thy hope, and said to the fine gold thou art my confidence ? Hast thou not said to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister? Hast thou not trusted in them who dwell in houses of clay, when the terrors of God set themselves in... | |
| 1801 - 430 pages
...fet a value on finery, look into that grave; behold the mouldering body of my Betfey, .who now fays to "Corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm thou art my mother and my fifter." Look at the bloody and hrainlefs head of her hufband. O, Mr. Worthy, how does Providence mock... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1801 - 402 pages
...perfection as his father, and the higheft order of fpirits as his brethren, may in another refpect fay to ' corruption, thou art 'my father, and to the worm, thou art my ' mother, and my fifter.' O. FACIES NON OMNIBUS UNA, NEC DIVERSA TAMEN OVID. J. HOSE who were fkilled in anatomy among... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1802 - 306 pages
...disorder, andwhere the light is as darkness. This is my house, there have I made my bed: I have said to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister : As for my hope, who shall see it ? I and my bope go down together to the hars of the pit, Job x.... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...perfection' as his father, and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may in another respect say to corruption, ' Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.' O. N"520. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1712. &uis iuiderio sit pudor a«t modus eTam cbart capitis ! HOR. 1.... | |
| Noah Webster - 1802 - 252 pages
...for thefe di!lin£t.ions, which becomes the vehicles of your difhonor. Such a nation might ttuly fay, to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my filler. We fhould fay of inch a race of men, ihrir name is a heavier burden than thtir debt. onfequencös.... | |
| William Huntington - 1802 - 686 pages
...the greateft difhonour and indignity, that could be offered to the majefty of heaven — He may fay to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother. Job xvii. 14. But to think that God would, or could, ever acknowledge or accept fuch an one as a child... | |
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