 | 1809 - 1150 pagine
...Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 4 nd thou shall cut it in the house of mirth. 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pagine
...heart, and lets it out to more vanity, cli. ii. 2, 3; Hos. iv. 11; Esth. i. 10; 1 Sam. ixv. 36. 4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Solomon proves sorrow to be more wholesome for the soul than laughter, from the contrary judgment and... | |
 | John Struthers - 1814 - 352 pagine
...horrors of unutterable despair. Septembe GOBBALS, 1 , 1806. J THE PEASANT'S DEATH. 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 heart. Mark the perfect man, and behold... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pagine
...better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 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. 3 Sorrow is better than... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 588 pagine
...vanity of his past life, was the sense of mortality impressed on him ; for he says, 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, chap. vii. 3. that is, he... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 544 pagine
...abhorred as the worst misery. The wise man instructed by dear experience, tells as, " 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 heart. Sorrow is better than laughter:... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pagine
...understood this, that they would consider their latter end !" — It is unquestionably better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, since this is the end of aH men. — But, after all, it will signify nothing, unless the living will... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pagine
...Amen. SERMON XL ADVANTAGES OF THE HOUSE OF MOURNING. j- • . : ECCLESIASTES VII. 2. It is tetter to go to the House of Mourning, than to go to the House of Feasting. J\ OTHING seems more contradictory to the general sentiments of mankind, than this declaration of the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 pagine
...therefore Solomon saith of such laughter, ' it is mad ; and of mirth, what doth it? — 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: sorrow is better than laughter... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 pagine
...touched, believe me, 'tis not with romance — it is with the sorrows of actual life. " It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feastiug ; for that is the end of all men — aud the living will lay it to his heart."] Nov. 9th to... | |
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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. 
