 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 - Page 266by Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 389 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Readers - 1892 - 396 pages
...for itself are prepared for this people in the coming century, we may not assume to foretell. " One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever ;" and we reverently hope that these our constituted liberties shall be maintained to the unending... | |
 | American fiction - 1906 - 560 pages
...the imperishable change That renovates the world. As he points out in the notes the original is: 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, [etc.] The other... | |
 | John H. Paton - End of the world - 1892 - 248 pages
..."Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever." — Ps. civ, 5. "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." — Eccle. i. 4. "And they [Israel] shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's... | |
 | Jeff Helgeson - 1999 - 144 pages
...the book he had bought in America covering the ends of centuries from the 990 's to the present: 'One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever. The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises,' and yet there were new... | |
 | Thomas Dunlap - History - 1999 - 362 pages
...nation will in truth exist" - but both land and people have changed, and change seems endless. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever" (Ecc. 1:4). So we hope, but it may be that only our capacity, in this generation, to listen to the... | |
 | Ronald Becher - History - 1999 - 506 pages
...surely apply to our own? What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. Ecclesiastes 1: 3, 4 450 APPENDIX A Known Casualties in Nebraska Territory, August 7, 1864 Killed:... | |
 | Linda Wagner-Martin - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 256 pages
...highlighted in an epigraph to The Sun Also Rises that was drawn from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever . . ." (Hemingway's ellipses). Jake Barnes, whatever his nobility and intelligence, has been rendered... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...forever with the passing of one generation." Here he quotes Ecclesiastes 1:4 in this context: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." Lincoln hopes the nation will move beyond the war and to the perpetuation of a self-governing union.... | |
 | Joel Beversluis - Religion - 2011 - 420 pages
...His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, TENZIN GYATSO, in My Tibet, written with Galen Rowell Christian One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever. ECCLESIASTES 1:4 They brought young children to Christ, that he should touch them: and his disciples... | |
 | Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 390 pages
...Immortal Earth I have chosen this verse from the great book of Ecclesiastes as a title page legend: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever." I am sorry to say that this verse comes immediately before the verse Hemingway used: "The sun also... | |
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