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. The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln - Página 151por Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 187 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1866 - 496 páginas
...gate. Note 4, p. 42. 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 - 1442 páginas
...paper, I now respectively recall your attention to what may be called " compensated emancipation." A nation may be said to consist of its territory,...certain durability. " One generation passeth away, aud another generation cometh, but the earth abideth for ever." It is of the first importance to duly... | |
| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1869 - 370 páginas
...is man himself, who is involved with both these extremes ? What is the purpose of his life ? " One generation passeth away and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth forever." In this flowing tide of change he lives and acts. But " what profit hath " he " of all his labor which... | |
| Henry Clay Fish - 1871 - 926 páginas
...in beauty and song, as if decay had never passed over any of their leafy boughs. So of men : " one generation passeth away, and . another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever" (Eccl., i. 4) The same to the new generation that cometh—the same scene of weary labor, endless variety,... | |
| Charles C. Jones - 1873 - 622 páginas
...the equally frail memory of to-morrow. Under such circumstances emphatically is "it true that "one generation passeth away and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. There is no remembrance of former things: neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are... | |
| ellias warner leaven worth - 1873 - 418 páginas
...COMPILED BY WILLIAM AND ELIAS W.. LEAVEN WORTH, Til IS 1ST OP GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS., IN 1827. *' One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever." " Honor thy father and' thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God... | |
| William Benjamin Hayden - 1873 - 226 páginas
...shall not be moved." * * * " Thy throne is established of old, Thou art from everlasting." * * " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." — Ps. xcm. 1, 2 ; Ps. XOVI. 10; EOOL. I. 4. THESE words convey an idea of perpetuity and endurance... | |
| Charles Colcock Jones - 1873 - 622 páginas
...in the equally frail memory of to-morrow. Under such circumstances emphatically is it true that "one generation passeth away and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever. There is no remembrance of former things : neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are... | |
| David Swing - 1874 - 172 páginas
...Christ as He is freely offered to all in the Gospel. INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. Ecclesiastes i : 4. This verse from the Bible is read, not as a text out 01 which a discourse may be... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - 1875 - 94 páginas
...connected. THE SUBJECT DETERMINES THE DURATION DESCRIBED BY THE ADJECTIVE. Prof. Tayler Lewis says, "'One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever.' This certainly indicates, not an endless eternity in the strictest sense of the word, but only a future... | |
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