...discourse, quoting Job as if in a sermon: '"Smith! Why not General ABC? ... Why he's the man - " "Man," ... "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live."'38 The discursive deflection from the grandiose officer's truth to the biblical passage describing...

...funeral, Rev. Daniel Nash of Christ Church in Cooperstown reminded those gathered over her grave that "man hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." Then, four days later, he was standing before the Coopers once again in the village as he baptized...

...Reverend Mr. Ticknor began reading from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer: "Man, that is born of woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full...down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death. Of whom may we seek for succour,...

...Reverend Mr. Ticknor began reading from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer: "Man, that is born of woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full...down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death. Of whom may we seek for succour,...

...men stooped down, lowering the mattress into the grave, he began to speak again. 'Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. . . . He cometh up and is cut down ... he fleeth as it were a shadow. . . . Yet. O Lord (iod most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and...