 | 1788 - 598 lehte
...fhadow ? for who can tell a man what fhalll)^ after him under the fun ? CHAP. VII. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment : and the day of death, than the day of one's birth. 2 fl It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to go to the houfeof feafting ; for that... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1799 - 414 lehte
...fubftance of feveral Sermons preached aC Etterick, in the year 1730. ECCL. vii. 1. Agmd name is better than precious ointment; and the day. of death, than the day of one' -s birth. " EVER man more livelily reprefented the vanity of this world and: human Hfe, than Solomon... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 lehte
...doubt not, that the day of death is preferable before the day of one's birth : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth," Eccles. vii. 1. On tlie same accounts, I do not question, Paul did prefer to die rather than... | |
 | 1807 - 570 lehte
...mortification, 7 patience, 1 1 wisdom. '13 The difficulty of getting aisdom. A Good name is better 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... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 lehte
...name, ^mortification, 7/iaticnce, llwudom. 23 The difficulty qf getting wisdom. A GOOD name is better phets, and by all the seers, saying, birth. 2 f It in better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to (he house of feasting : for that... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1811 - 472 lehte
...birthday, or than the most joyous day he had ever on earth. " A good name," says the wise man, " is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death, than the day of one's birth," Eccl. vii. 1. The notion of the immortality of the soul, and of future happiness, which obtained... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 lehte
...the chapter, namely, the bitterness of an insnaring woman, ver. 25 — 29. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Or, " A name is good before good ointment." A name, for a good name ; as a wife, for a good... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1811 - 476 lehte
...birthday, or than the most joyous day he had ever on earth. " A good name," says the wise man, " is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death, than the day of one's birth," Eccl. vii. 1. The notion of the immortality of the soul, and of future happiness, which obtained... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 508 lehte
...birth-day, or than the most joyous day he ever had on earth. " A good name," says the wise man, " is better than precious ointment : and the day of death, than the day of one's birth," Eccl. vii. 1. The notion of the immortality of the soul, and of future happiness, which obtained... | |
 | 1813 - 760 lehte
...mortij-.catian, 7 patience, 1 1 Tt'i/Jt/ик 23 ^^i difficulty of getting •uñfdurn. AGnt-it iwnie if better than precious ointment ; and the day of death- than the day of ones** birth- woman, whole heart ы nuns i4 // i/ better to go tothelmnfeof mourn- her lunJs *i b.¡nds:... | |
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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. 
