| 1611 - 360 pages
...better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house...feasting : for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance... | |
| 1808 - 500 pages
...mourning, and consider the widow and the fatherless. " * It is better," saith (he preacher, " to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of...feasting, for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow," he continues, " is better than laughter, for by the sadness... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together. Eoclesiastes, It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house...feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the countenance... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...trouble »nd the commencement of his felicity, and seals up his good character. Z [It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house...feasting : for that [is] the end of all men ; and the living will lay [it] to his heart ; the contemplation of death is more desirable and useful than any... | |
| John Bunyan - 1806 - 454 pages
...This is the House of Mirth." Then he remembered the words of the wise man, that " it is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting :"1 and again, " The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 ^f -ft is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting : for that in the end of all men ; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter :... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1808 - 446 pages
...to be derived from the HOUSE of MOURNING. ECCLESIASTES, vii. 2, 3, 4. It is better to go to the home of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting ; for that is the end of all men, and the living 'will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter ; for by the sadness of the countenance... | |
| Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808 - 448 pages
...Benefits to be derived from the the House of Mourning. ECCLESIASTES, vii. 2, 3, 4. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to. go to the house of feasting ; for. that h the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter ; for... | |
| James Fordyce - 1809 - 332 pages
...edifying to this soul is this generous sensibility ! " It is better to go to the house of mourning *' than to the house of feasting : for that is the end "of all men, and the living will lay it to heart. Sor" row is better than laughter : for by the sadness of " the countenance... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...death than the day of one's birth. 2 f It in better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to (he ram ; and Aaron and his s<ins shall put their hands upon th living will lay it to his heart 3 Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the countenance... | |
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