 | Una Kroll - 2006 - 194 էջ
...reached the time of which the psalmist speaks in the poetic cadences of the Book of Common Prayer: The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - 2006 - 198 էջ
...the Psalms. Also from Psalm 90 comes the idea of life as "a tale / Told by an idiot," in the words, "We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told." As GK Chesterton humorously remarks of this speech, "A murderer might grow cheerful, if he were able... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Cleveland Coxe - 2007 - 713 էջ
...number ; which he asserts in the following lines : " our years are spent in thought like a spider." ' "The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is more of them but labour and sorrow" (ver. 10). These words... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 2004 - 1160 էջ
...sixteen states with 189 electoral votes. 87 Barfield was fifty on 9 November 1948. 88 Psalm 90:10: 'The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth... | |
 | Arthur Kroeger - 2007 - 294 էջ
...Reiseschuldt brought a palpable sense of relief to Heinrich and Helena. FIFTEEN Exile and Dispersal We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. — PSALM 90:9 THE 1940s SAW THE END of the Mennonite colonies in the USSR and the dispersal of their... | |
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The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 
