 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1805 - 380 trang
...bay-tree ; yet he passed away, and lo, he teas not : I sought him, but he could not be found. Surely men of high degree are a lie, to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity — / said, ye are Gods, and all of you are children of the most High : but ye shall die like men.... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 trang
...David from his own experience, tells us, that men of low degree are vanity, and men oj high degree a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. Try your friend then, before you trust in him ; for generally speaking, it is only where the carcase... | |
 | Obsolete ideas - 1807 - 226 trang
...he fays, " Surely men of '* low degree are vanity, and men of : - " high *' high degree are a lye : to be laid in " the balance they are altogether lighter " than vanity." Perhaps, Maria, you may think it ftrange that I fhould recommend to you the acquiring a general knowledge... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 trang
...soever, is mere vanity, and utterly deceitful in the irust that is put in them : let vanity be LXII. 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high...: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether' ligiiter than vanity. laid in one end of the scales, and man in another, man shall be found lighter... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 644 trang
...true of the university, that, in it, ' men of low degree are vanity, men of high degree are as a lye; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity ?' V. Whether the un'iTcrsky of Oxon did not well to petition, that Durham might not be made such an... | |
 | 1809 - 556 trang
...yourselves to God by earnest prayer, and implore his help ; for he will never fail us. Ver. 9. Surely men cf low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are a/together lighter than vanity.] But do not VOL. 111. " U place any confidence in man ; for as the... | |
 | 1809 - 674 trang
...alone. r 5] This repetition of the h'rft Terfe, with the change of perfon, is very beautiful. . . 9] "" Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are »&: «» bo laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity-" Qib. urunf. 10 O truft... | |
 | 1877 - 588 trang
...It is so in Job xi. 17, " More (clear) than the noon-day rises thy life." So also Psalm Ixii. 10, " To be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." In accordance with these passages we translate the words in the 110th Psalm, concerning which we are... | |
 | 1810 - 630 trang
...true of the university, that, in it, * men of low degree arc vanity, men of high degree are as a lye; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity r* V. Whether the university of Oxon did not well to petition, that Durham might not be made such an... | |
 | 1810 - 620 trang
...true of the university, that, in it, ' men of low degree are vanity, men of high degree arc as a lye; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity ." V. Whether the university of Oxon did not -well to petition, that Durham might not be made such... | |
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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 
