 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831 - 634 pages
...judgment, that wickedness was there ; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there :' ' I considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun ; and behold the tears of such as are oppressed ; on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter :' so did... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Antislavery movements - 1832 - 96 pages
...justly, and love mercy ''/ and how correct is the following description of the wise man, " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as are oppressed, and they had no comforter : and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but... | |
 | English poetry - 1832 - 264 pages
...the dreams of bliss that are, Not to be born is best by far ; i (') Compare Ecclesiastes iv. 2,3. — "Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that... | |
 | James Yonge - Sermons, English - 1832 - 594 pages
...and the weary are at rest." Hear how the wise Preacher expresses the very same miserable thoughts: "I praised th.e dead, which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea better is he than both they, which doth not hear, which hath not seen the evil work that... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...his portion : for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him ? LESSON LXXXV. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 3 Yea, better than both they is he which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | Calvin Colton - Cherokee Indians - 1833 - 510 pages
...presented to my father's father by your father's father, from over the big salt lake : ' So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...oppressors there was power — but they had no comforter.' God is witness of our old engagements — God is witness how they have been kept — and God will reward... | |
 | Calvin Colton - History - 1833 - 362 pages
...presented to my father's father by your father's father, from over the big salt lake: ' So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...comforter. And on the side of their oppressors there was power—but they had no comforter.' God is witness of our old engagements— God is witness how they... | |
 | African Americans - 1833 - 376 pages
...and upheld by its people. The cries and the prayers of the afflicted will be heard in Heaven; for, on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. By what bill of rights is the lawful possessor of the soil forbidden to unbosom its golden treasures;... | |
 | John Mason Duncan - Creeds - 1834 - 276 pages
...creeds has been a reign of ignorance, immorality and contention. Solomon said — " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1834 - 618 pages
...people? "I (bund Israel labouring, groaning, expiring hi the furnace. I beheld the tears of them that brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was not in the wind : Their cry reached heaven. He who made them had mercy upon them. He was pleased to choose me out of... | |
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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun : and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. 
