 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.  Sermons - Seite 366von Hugh Blair - 1790Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1809 - 1150 Seiten
...one's birth. 2 f It in better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to (he house of feasting : his s<ins shall put their hands upon the head of the r;ini. ] 6 And tho 3 Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.... | |
 | James Fordyce - 1809 - 332 Seiten
...generous sensibility ! " 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 heart. Sor" row is better than laughter : for by the sadness of " the countenance the heart is made... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 Seiten
...wise man ; " It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to that of feasting," Eccles. vii. " for that is the end of 'all men, and the living will lay it to his heart." NeTer lodle upon a diseased body stretched upon a bed, or upon a dead corpse in a coffin, but remember... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 Seiten
...to the home of feasting. THAT I deny ; — but let us hear the wise man's reasoning upon it, — " for that is the end of all men, '' and the living will lay it to his heart : sorrow is " better than laughter :" — for a crack-brain'd order of Carthusian monks, I grant, but not for men... | |
 | John Ovington - 1813 - 168 Seiten
...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 116 The Sorrows of the Marriage State. sadness... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 Seiten
...it is said, ** 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. A neighbouring clergyman was of the party. He related a little occurrence which I shall mention here.... | |
 | J S. Pipe - 1813 - 646 Seiten
...Holy Spirit informs us that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of mirth : for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart." How affecting, and what a cure for vanity is death ! Behold this clay-cold Corpse — the vital... | |
 | John Struthers - 1814 - 352 Seiten
...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 the upright: for the end of that man is peace. Holy Scriptures^... | |
 | 1815 - 294 Seiten
...they shall be comforted. 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. Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Affliction cometh... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 588 Seiten
...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 will, or ought to improve the sense of his own frailty, which we may conclude... | |
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