| 1849 - 204 páginas
...for the ministerial office, before the professors and his fellow-students, and his text was, Eccles. vii. 2, " It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasing; for that is the end of all men." On this occasion, the youthful orator availed himself of... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 páginas
...brethren, the love of neighbours, a man aud a wife that agree together. Eoclesiastes. 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; aud the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 páginas
...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 páginas
...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:'" and again, " The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the \\ov\?,e.... | |
| 1807 - 570 páginas
...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:... | |
| 1809 - 454 páginas
...convinced me that the wordsot the prophet are true, " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting for that is the end of all rrrt. and the living will lay it to btt heart." A Dying Youth, A young person on the bed of sickness... | |
| Robert Morehead - 1810 - 264 páginas
...from the Afflictions of Life. ECCLESIASTES, vii. 2. 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 his heart SERMON XX. Page 150 On Religious Consolation in Affliction, exemplified... | |
| Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 páginas
...God also hath set the one over against the other. (/) It is better to go into the house of menrning, 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. (m) O that men were wise, that they understood this, that they would... | |
| John Ovington - 1813 - 168 páginas
...But the wisdom of inspiration informs us, that, " 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 his heart : and that sorrow is better than laughter, for, by the sadness of the... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1813 - 790 páginas
...greatest part of men pass their whole life in. Upon this account Solomon says, that it is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting; ie it is more to a man's advantage to turn his eyes towards objects of distress, to recall sometimes... | |
| |