 A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.  Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... - Стр. 254авторы: Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - Страниц: 399Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - Страниц: 416
...Inconsiderable is the life of man compared with the duration of the world. Solomon observes, " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever," orcontinuethfor ages ; we know not how many. There is a similar expression in the 10-4th Psalm. " God... | |
 | Nathanael Howe - 1816 - Страниц: 40
...reflections on what has been said, and some advice in the choice and treatment of another minister. " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever." Your habits are so firmly fixed, that no reformation is to be expected during my ministry ; and, indeed,... | |
 | Nathanael Howe - 1825 - Страниц: 44
...circumstances are changing. Our relations are changing. The inhabitants of the world are changing. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever. There was formerly a man living in the kingdom of Great Britain, whose name was Edward Hopkins. This... | |
 | 1825 - Страниц: 688
...comparison of our fading life with the constant earth, that filled the mind of the royal moralist. '• One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever." TMfe duration of human life dwindled to a moment in his mind, and the stability of the earth tilled... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1830 - Страниц: 410
...some travellers have passed, some are passing, while others are only coming in, Eccles. i. 4, 'One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever.' Death is an inexorable, irresistible messenger, who cannot be diverted from executing his orders, by... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1836 - Страниц: 740
...springs from, and returns to dust. It is as the wise preacher has said in his desponding vision — "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and passeth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - Страниц: 410
...earth. P. 45, 1.1. Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb. " One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever. The sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1868 - Страниц: 1434
...paper, I now respectively recall your attention to what may be called " compensated emancipation." A nation may be said to consist of its territory,...and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth for ever." It is of the first importance to duly consider, and estimate, this ever-enduring part. That... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - Страниц: 314
...vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun T One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. 170 THE BIBLE... | |
 | 1841 - Страниц: 1136
...; all is vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? •1 One This if my covenant, which ye shall F ? ⻀ < 0 V 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. ' 6 The wind... | |
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