 | University magazine - 1876 - 828 pages
...thoughts dwelt these delightful word?, stamped with the authority of the old pensive Ecclesiastes : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Cultured as many of them were, they did not reach those lengthened... | |
 | 1876 - 392 pages
...life which he spendeth as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? A good name is 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... | |
 | 1876 - 892 pages
...thoughts dwelt these delightful words, stamped with the authority of the old pensive Ecclesiastes : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Cultured as many of them were, they did not reach those lengthened... | |
 | 1877 - 556 pages
...show Thyself pure, And with the froward Thou wilt show Thyself froward.'' (5.) Eccles. vii. i : — " A good name (is) better than precious ointment ; And the day of death than the day of one's birth." There is no visible connexion in the subjects of these two lines... | |
 | 1877 - 568 pages
...show Thyself pure, And with the froward Thou wilt show Thyself froward." (5.) Eccles. vii. I : — " A good name (is) better than precious ointment ; And the day of death than the day of one's birth." There is no visible connexion in the subjects of these two lines... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1878 - 50 pages
...realms of bliss? Mr. Speaker, death itself is not without its consolations. Ecclesiastes taught that "a good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Lord Bacon said : " Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate... | |
 | National Grange - 1878 - 72 pages
...of the grave, and the pall-bearers at the sides, and each breaks and throws in his bouquet.) Master. A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. [He] shall go as [he'] came, and take nothing of \Jiis~] labor which... | |
 | Alexander Dickson - 1878 - 444 pages
...cry of pain, often mingled with pleasure, because the weary, weeping earth-way is coming to an end: "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.'" To make us pure and holy, and prepare us for heaven, we may be... | |
 | Scottish pulpit - 1880 - 300 pages
...enjoyments. TRUE HAPPINESS: A LECTURE. BY THE REV. ROBERT JAMIESON, DD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. GLASGOW. " A good name is 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 the house of... | |
 | 1880 - 298 pages
...enjoyments. TRUE HAPPINESS: A LECTURE. BY THE REV. ROBERT JAMIESON, DD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, GLASGOW. " A good name is 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 the house of... | |
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It is better 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. 
