 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 472 pages
...HOUSE OT MOURNING. 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 i for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 716 pages
...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 of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. 1 am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord : he that believeth in me, yea, though he were dead,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - Bible - 1822 - 232 pages
...better than sweet odours. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the hall of feasting ; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart. Better is sorrow than laughter, for by dejection of countenance the heart is improved. In the... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...than to go to the house of feasting; for that visitation of the afflicted [is] what ADMONISHES us OF the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart, and be deeply 3 affected by it. Moreover, sorrow is better than excessive and unmeaning laughter ;... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1823 - 494 pages
...living. 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." Death has always been the greatest source of sorrow to all the inhabitants of this world. Maoy who... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Children - 1823 - 258 pages
...grave of Peace: for 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. (Eccles. vii. 2.) So Mr.^Orthodox and Mrs. Bountiful led the way, and the children followed. Now, when... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1824 - 654 pages
...the wise man, "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," Eccles. ch. vii. 2. Never look upon a sick person breathing his last, or upon a dead corpse in its... | |
 | Theology - 1824 - 400 pages
...the preacher are true, " it is better to goto 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." Ilt-ME. David Hume observed, that all the devout persons he had ever met with were melancholy. On this... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: o 0 o 0 3 Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...Wisdom is a defence' — ' 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.' There is not a better lesson. It points to the end of man. If any thing will' set him on thinking,... | |
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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. 
