| Laurence Sterne - 1780 - 480 pages
...mourning than to the houfe of feafting. I deny — but let us hear the wife man's reafoning upon it — . for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart : forrow is hetter than laughter — for a crack'd. brain'd order of Carthufian monks, I grant, but... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1785 - 496 pages
...ECCLESIASTES, Vli. 2, 3, 4. // is better to go to the boufe of mourning, than to go to the houfe off caJling; 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 fadnefs of the countenance the heart is made better. 'fhe.... | |
| Thomas Francklin - Sermons, English - 1787 - 404 pages
...from them, tha.t \. . , . It is better to go to the houfe of mourning than to the houfe offeqfting -} for that is the end of all men, and the living 'will lay it /<? heart* *' Sorrow, fays he, is better than laughter, for by the fadnefs of the countenance the heart... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...one's birth. 2 fl It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to go to the houfeof feafting ; for that is. the end of all men ; and the living will lay it to his heart. . ,. . ,; 3 Sorrow is better than laughter ; for by the fadnefs of the countenance the heart is made... | |
| Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1791 - 212 pages
...2, 3, 4, 5, 6. " It is better to go to the houfe of mourning than to go to the houfe of feafting ; 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 fadnels of the countenance the heart is made better. The... | |
| Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1792 - 624 pages
...thofe who are deceafed, and to fuch as they hive left behind them. 1. With fefpccl: to himfelf. Death is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to It's heart || . It is becaufe we do not lay it to our hearts, that we moft of us go on juft as if VOL.... | |
| John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1800 - 620 pages
...Ecclef. vii. 2, 3. " It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to " go to the houfe of feafting : for that is the end of all men, " and the living will lay it to bis heart. Sorrow is better " than laughter : for by the fadnefs of the countenance *' the heart is... | |
| 1808 - 500 pages
...the fatherless. " * It is better," saith (he preacher, " 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," he continues, " is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is... | |
| John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1802 - 600 pages
...Ecclef. vii. 2, 3. " It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to " go to the houfe of feafting : 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 fadnels of the countenance " the heart is made better."... | |
| 1802 - 440 pages
...most solemn ever witnessed by America, listen to ^hc. voice of eternal truth — " It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting ;"— for none of us " liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself." * ., ; : . BUT there are some men, illuminated... | |
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