 | Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1733 - 380 pages
...young * man contented with the profpe& of * Death. For honourable age is not that which ' ftandtth in length of time^ or is measured * by number of years. But wifdont is the * grey hair to men, and an unfpotted life is * eld age. He was taken away fpccdily,... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...depend wholly upon the fund already acquired ? " Honourable age," says a man of no mean abilities,* " is not that which standeth in length of time, or is...grey hair to men, and an unspotted life is old age." We conclude falsely, when we say, successful vice is happy. For who can calculate what guilt costs... | |
 | Edward Nares - Sermons, English - 1803 - 432 pages
..."for," as Solomon saith, " though the " righteous be prevented -with death, yet " shall he be in rest ; for honourable age " 'is not that which standeth in length of " time, nor that is measured by number of " years ; but wisdom is grey hair unto men, " and an unspotted life... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...wisdom shall never fall away. Though, the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest. For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1804 - 608 pages
...may apply the observation, " Honourable age is not that which " standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by " number of years. But wisdom is the grey hair unto " men, and an unspotted life is old age. Though the " righteous be prevented with death ; yet... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 428 pages
...has sufficiently fulfilled his course, whether it was appointed by Providence to be long or short. For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hear to man ; and an unspotted... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...a paradise. CHAP. V. , HONOURABLE age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto man, and unspotted life is old age. 'Wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...received instruction. Honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time ; nor that which is measured by number of years; — But wisdom is the grey hair to man ; and an unspotted life is old age. Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers ; and serve... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1811 - 768 pages
...Change shall be no more.' ' Honourable age is not that wl:i, h standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the grey hair unto men, aud au unspotted life is old agt. -f-.' "Islington, Feb. 18, 131 1. Gi'E." March 19. At Leicester,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 362 pages
...elegantly expressed in the Book of Wisdom) passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but one day. There are reasons enough, in the fourth...number " of years. But wisdom is the grey hair to man, and " an unspotted life is old age. He was taken away " speedily, lest wickedness should alter... | |
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For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age. 
