 | 1858 - 328 sider
...there be fixed, where alone true joys are to be found, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PROPHECIES. ECCLESIASTES. A GOOD name is better than precious...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 of feasting : for that is the... | |
 | Benjamin Weiss - 1858 - 352 sider
...earthly scenes and transactions shall have rolled into eternal forgetfulncss. (CHAPTER vn. VER. 1.) 1. A good name is better than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of his birth. The ointment so much used by the orientals in olden times, and which is so often spoken... | |
 | Israel Joseph Benjamin - 1859 - 362 sider
...customs from birth to death, I conclude with the words of Salomon, who says in Ecclesiastes c. VII, 1.2: ,,A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is... | |
 | Israel Joseph Benjamin - 1859 - 698 sider
...from birth to death , I conclude with the words of Salomon, who says in Ecclesiastes c. VII, 1.2: nA good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is... | |
 | 1859 - 980 sider
...the sun 1 CHAPTER VII. ivtu and аатлпШыи. И Л of witdom. 28 Тм difficulty obtaining u. . up Jerusalem : he gathereth toge .an the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of... | |
 | 1860 - 400 sider
...me : if I have done iniquity, I will do so no more. Monday — Septuagesima. ECCLESIASTES VII. 1 10. 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 of feasting : for that is the end... | |
 | 1860 - 1346 sider
...Sundry observations and admonition*. 11 A commcndaîion of tcisdotn. 23 The difficulty in obtaining it. not be fastened in the walls of the house. 7 And the house, wh 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the... | |
 | Edmund Baker - 1862 - 264 sider
...blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. TO BE, OR NOT TO BE? CHAPTER I. WISDOM HATH WEITTEN IT. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.— ECCLES. vii. 1. " To BE, or not to be ? that is the question." This may be the question of the natural... | |
 | 1862 - 760 sider
...vision—" houses of God, and gates of heaven." MEMOIR OF THE REV. JAMES ANDERSON, LATE OP CARLUKE. "-A GOOD name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Such was the estimate of Solomon, and such must be the estimate of every believer in reference to his... | |
 | John Eadie - 1862 - 878 sider
...wicked Is driven away In his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. EccUs. vll, 1. A gooA # # Isa. Ivll, 1. The righteous perieheth. and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away,... | |
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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. 
